Talk:United States post office murals

Copyright query

Cv-unsure|User:DGG|url=http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Arkansas_Post_Office_Murals&oldid=401873116%7Cdate=December 2010

The material is all cited. Google Books has [https:__www.google.ca_books_edition_Wall_to_wall_America_C_heVcKKqVEC_hl=en_gbpv=1_dq=Wall_to_Wall_America%3a_Post_Office_Murals_in_the_Great_Depression_pg=PA73_printsec=frontcover Wall-to-Wall America] as a searchable book. I was unable to find any copying using sentence fragment searches. "Arkansas Post Offices and the Treasury Department’s Section Art Program, 1938-1942" is available as a PDF and running Earwig on it shows no copying. I am unable to find the other documents to check but with these two, it looks to me like these are sources used as references, and the material is originally written. I expect the others would be the same. -- Whpq (talk) 13:45, 11 July 2023 (UTC)

Moved page and doing some cleanup

I've moved this page to a more descriptive title, and removed {{Orphan|date=November 2010}} and {{essay|date=November 2010}} Could still use some additional work. ServiceAT (talk) 18:18, 23 July 2011 (UTC)

I just cut out

"* Berta Margoulies, - Canton, NY, Monticello, AR"

because Margoulies was a sculptor and not a painter. While there is the occasional "sculpture mural" they are not common and I doubt that this was one. I will do a stub on her shortly. Einar aka Carptrash (talk) 20:00, 9 December 2014 (UTC)

Gallery

It may be time for a gallery. Thoughts? Ed aka ```Buster Seven Talk 18:56, 11 December 2014 (UTC)

Good idea, but you/we might want to consider the scope of the thing. Often as lists get longer, as ours surely will, we create a separate article, List of Post Office Murals, leave a link in the PO Murals article and move the list to the new article. Done properly, and why not other than it's a lot of work, we create table at the list that allows us to put in the information we want and a thumb picture. Check out List of monuments of the Gettysburg Battlefield for a large example and I believe that the list of murals could be as big or bigger, depending on . . . ....us. Carptrash (talk) 19:36, 11 December 2014 (UTC)

Yes, yes and yes. I realized yesterday, based on the reference I'm using (http://livingnewdeal.org/new-deal-categories/art/mural/) that the list would become Gi-normous and wondered what to do ...and when to do it!. Also, your creation of the stubs gave me the incentive to add only artists that already have articles (at least for the time being). I'll check out the Battlefield list. I was looking for a worthwhile creative project...and a mentor to teach me things. Down the line, if you set up the List of Post Office Murals page, I can do the "grunt" work. ```Buster Seven Talk 20:03, 11 December 2014 (UTC)

I will mull the List thing over, it would be good to get something started today, otherwise it is just more to move. I am doing female artist stubs IF they are in my Women Artists references just because the dearth of articles about women in general has been noted some time ago so it is just the place I tend to go. Life is supposed to be interesting. Carptrash (talk) 20:53, 11 December 2014 (UTC).

started by George Biddle writing to his friend FDR, and NRHP MPS/TR documents

The current article has no mention of origin of the program by artist George Biddle writing in 1933 to his friend(?) former college classmate Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in anecdote told in this Arkansas NRHP MPS document. Biddle admired such a mural program in Mexico supported by Mexican president Alvaro Obregon. There are 20 NRHP MPS/TR documents which each give review of the mural programs and/or reviews the murals in post offices in a given state, in MPS documents listed at wp:MPS. There is need to check these documents for mentions of post office murals not yet covered, and for other useful info, for the List of United States post office murals, too. Some of them include cut-and-paste copying from others, in their general review of mural programs. But there is significant content useful for this article, too, including good quotes about the mural programs, in addition to the Biddle anecdote. I would be very happy to see anyone using this information and would like to cooperate in seeing that they're systematically reviewed. Please watch also Talk:List of United States post office murals. --doncram 05:35, 3 January 2017 (UTC)