A total of twenty-nine artist created murals in thirty Tennessee Post Office buildings during the Great Depression of the 1930s. One of the artist Minna Citron  received multiple commissions. The artist and their awarded sites as listed below.

We have found having a list such as this is convenient when performing research at the National Archives Records and Administration. Any researcher will reveal, that finding information is part of the fun, somethings what you are looking for is catalogued by the artist name. Other times the research materials you need may be cataloged by the city or town, and so on.

Having a list to refer to is helpful on your journey of discovering these wonderful treasures in our nations post offices.

Tennessee Post Office Mural Artist

1. Bolivar – Carl Nyquist
2. Camden – John H. Fyfe
3. Chattanooga – Leopold Scholz, sculpture
4. Chattanooga – Hilton Leech, mural
5. Clarksville – F. Luis Mora
6. Clinton – Horace Talmage Day
7. Columbia –  Henry Billings, mural
8. Columbia – Sidney Waugh, sculpture
9. Crossville – Marion Greenwood
10. Dayton – Bertram Hartman
11. Decherd – Enea Biafora
12. Dickson – Edwin Boyd Johnson
13. Dresden – Minetta Good
14. Gleason – Anne Poor
15. Greeneville – William Zorach
16. Jefferson City – Charles Child
17. Johnson City – Wendell Jones
18. La Follette – Dahlov Ipcar
19. Lenoir City – David Stone Martin
20. Lewisburg – John H.R. Pickett
21. Lexington – Grace Greenwood (Ames)
22. Livingston – Margaret Covey Chisholm
23. Manchester –  Minna Citron*
24. McKenzie – Karl Oberteuffer
25. Mount Pleasant – Eugene Higgins
26. Nashville – Belle Kinney
27. Newport – Minna Citron*
28. Ripley – Marguerite Zorach
29. Rockwood – Christian Henrich
30. Sweetwater – Thelma Martin

Sources

• David W. Gates Jr. on site visits to each location.
• Tennessee Post Office Murals by David W. Gates Jr.
• Indiana Post Office Mural Guidebook by David W. Gates Jr.
• National Archives Records and Administration, College Park Maryland
• Who was who in American Art, 1564-1975: 400 years of artist in America, Peter H Falk; Audrey M Lewis, Georgia Kuchen, Veronika Roessler, Madison, CT, Mount View Press. 1999.
• Democratic Vistas: Post Offices and Public Art in the New Deal: [Hardcover]  Marlene Park, Gerald E. Markowitz