Dahlov Ipcar

Tennessee Post Office Mural Artist

Bolivar – Carl Nyquist

Camden – John H. Fyfe

Chattanooga – Leopold Scholz, sculpture

Chattanooga – Hilton Leech, mural

Clarksville – F. Luis Mora

Clinton – Horace Talmage Day

Columbia – Henry Billings, mural

Columbia – Sidney Waugh, sculpture

Crossville – Marion Greenwood

Dayton – Bertram Hartman

Decherd – Enea Biafora

Dickson – Edwin Boyd Johnson

Dresden – Minetta Good

Gleason – Anne Poor

Greeneville – William Zorach

Jefferson City – Charles Child

Johnson City – Wendell Jones

La Follette – Dahlov Ipcar

Lenoir City – David Stone Martin

Lewisburg – John H.R. Pickett

Lexington – Grace Greenwood (Ames)

Livingston – Margaret Covey Chisholm

Manchester – Minna Citron*

McKenzie – Karl Oberteuffer

Mount Pleasant – Eugene Higgins

Nashville – Belle Kinney

Newport – Minna Citron*

Ripley – Marguerite Zorach

Rockwood – Christian Henrich

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

ADDRESS: 1221 E Central Ave., La Follette, Tennessee, 37766
ARTIST: Dahlov Ipcar
TITLE: On the Shores of the Lake
MEDIUM: Oil on canvas (mural)
STATUS: The mural no longer reside in the original building. It was moved to the newer post office building on Central Ave (Shown here). The mural is on display in the lobby and is accessible to members of the public during business hours.
YEAR: 1939

Welcome to La Follette, Tennessee. I’m trying to remember if we visited this building first or the original building on Tennessee street. Either way when I stepped into the lobby of this newer building I wasn’t expecting to find the mural here. I’m really glad it has been preserved and moved. But it seems out-of-place. I’m trying to decide if that is a good thing or a bad thing.

When the murals were original installed, they were often times installed up hight above the postmasters office door. However, since this one was moved it was installed at a lower level, closer to the floor. The benefit of this, is the observer has a much closer and eye level view of the mural. Patrons are able to get an close look at all the detail. The drawback is that it looks awkward so close to the floor.

Additional notes, when I run into situations like this. Where the building is newer and it has artwork. It becomes difficult to categorize this article. Here is my dilemma. When I initially setup the categories, the “New Deal” category was meant to classify an older building with corner-stone and have been built during this time period. Since this is a newer building, I can’t classify it as “New Deal”. However, this location does have artwork from the this time period. Thus you can see my dilemma when classifying this type of building and article.

What do you think? Were you involve in moving this mural? What were some of the discussions involved in installations of this artwork? Please comment below.

Thanks,

David W. Gates Jr.