A total of forty-five artist created murals in forty-seven New Jersey Post Office buildings during the Great Depression of the 1930s. Four of the artist received multiple commissions as noted below. 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.
New Jersey Post Office Mural Artists
- Atlantic City – Peppino Mangravite
- Boonton – Enid Bell*
- Bordentown – Avery Johnson*
- Caldwell – Brenda Putnam
- Former Cliffside Park – Bruno Neri
- Former Clifton – John Sitton
- Cranford – Gerald Foster*
- Fort Lee – Henry Schnakenberg
- Former Freehold – Gerald Foster*
- Garfield – Robert Laurent
- Glen Ridge – James Chapin
- Gloucester City – Vincent D’ Agostino
- Haddon Heights – Isamu Noguchi
- Hammonton – Spero Anageros
- Harrison – Murray J. Roper
- Kearny – Albert Kotin
- Linden – Sahl Swarz
- Former Little Falls – James Brooks
- Matawan – Armin A. Scheler
- Metuchen – Harld Ambellan
- Millburn – Gerald Foster*
- Mount Holly – Enid Bell*
- New Brunswick – George Biddle
- New Brunswick – Ruth Nickerson
- Newark – Romuald Kraus*
- Newark – Vicken Von Post Totten
- North Bergen – Avery Johnson*
- Nutley – Paul C. Chapman
- Patterson – Ilse Erythropel
- Paulsboro – Nena de Brennecke
- Penns Grove – Benjamin Hawkins
- Pitman – Nathaniel Choate
- Plainfield – Anton Refregier
- Pompton Lakes – A. Stirling Calder
- Princeton – Karl Free
- Ridgefield Park – Thomas Donnelly
- Ridgewood – Romuald Kraus*
- Riverside – John Poehler
- Short Hills – Ernest Lawson
- South Orange – Bernard Perlin
- South River – Maurice Glickman
- Summit – Fiske Boyd
- Former Toms River – Milton Hebald
- Trenton – Charles W. Ward
- Washington – Frank D. Shapiro
- West New York – William Dean Fausett
- Westfield – Roy Hilton
- Westwood – Hunt Diederich
- Wildwood – Dennis Burlingame
Sources
- David W. Gates Jr. on site visits to each location.
- New Jersey 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
