ADDRESS: 4401 S. Main St., Vandalia, Missouri, 63382
TITLE: Corn Harvest
ARTIST: Joseph P. Vorst
MEDIUM: Oil on canvas (mural)
STATUS: The Vandalia post office is still an active, operating facility and the mural can be viewed by interested members of the public. The mural resides in the lobby on the wall above the postmaster’s door.
YEAR: 1939
The Vandalia post office also has wonderful limestone sculptures of a plane, train and ship on the front facade of the building. What is your story of the Vandalia Missouri Post Office? What can you tell me about the artists or subject?
Thanks,
David W. Gates Jr.
Sources
- Personal visit on 8/11/2012 by David W. Gates Jr.
- United States Postal Service
- (affiliate link) Democratic Vistas: Post Offices and Public Art in the New Deal
: [Hardcover] Marlene Park, Gerald E. Markowitz
- Parma Conservation (https://parmaconservation.com)
