Indian Family at Routine Tasks - Coalgate, OK - Murals on Waymarking.com

Acee Blue Eagle was a well-known Native American artist who painted quite a few of the murals that hang in U.S. post offices, under a WPA-sponsored program. This mural is entitled "Indian Family at Routine Tasks" and was painted and installed in 1942. It shows a Native American man with a bow and arrow, as well as three women threshing and grinding wheat. Across the sky flies a flock of Scissortail, the Oklahoma state bird. On the lower right corner, the artist has painted "Blue eagle - Oct. '42".

City: Coalgate, OK Location Name: U.S. Post Office Artist: Acee Blue Eagle Date: Oct. 1942 Media: Oil on canvas Relevant Web Site: [Web Link]

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