ADDRESS: 111 S Wolcott St, Casper, WY 82601 (need to verify)
ARTIST: Louis Harrington Emerson Ronnebeck
TITLE: The Fertile Land Remembers
MEDIUM: Oil on canvas (mural)
STATUS: The Casper, Wyoming post offices was formally Worland, Wyoming. This is still an operating facility, and the mural can be viewed by interested members of the pubic. It resides in the lobby.
YEAR: 1938
Thanks to Glen for this image of the Casper, Wyoming post office mural. We could use pictures of the building if anyone else out here has this, please contact us.
In 1938, the artist wrote of this painting: “The work is a romantic recollection of the covered wagon and the wild Indian and bison of the old West, who still in retrospect hover over the irrigated fields and oil wells of the present. The covered wagon drawn by oxen is shown inexorably pressing through the galloping figures under the white mans’ determination to open new lands. The landscapes on either side depict the present which was created by these pioneers. The way in which the idea is presented was suggested by the device of the double exposure used in many motion pictures to show the past and the present merging into one dramatic unit.”
The artist was born August 25, 1901, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and later lived in Denver, Colorado. She died in 1980. She studied at the Academy of Art in Fontainebleu, France, and at Barnard College and the Art Students League in New York City. Her work is represented at the U.S. Post Office in World, Wyoming, as well in numerous hospitals, hotels and other institutions in the Denver area. (FA1006)
-Fine Arts Collection, General Services Administration
Thanks Glen
Sources
- Personal visit by Glenn M.
- United States Postal Service