W.E.L.BUNN
The Regionalist artist, Bill Bunn, studied with
Grant Wood for five years and was involved in the New Deal mural commissions
- post office murals in Dubuque,
Iowa, 1935-1938, Minden, Nebraska, 1937-1939, Hickman, Kentucky, 1939-1940,
and Hamburg, Iowa The Hamburg Peony Festival in tempera, 1939-1940.
Elizabeth Anderson writes in Depression Legacy:Nebraska's
Post Office Art "The
various elements of Fort Kearny Protectorate on the Overland Trail at
Minden are arranged like beads on an abacus. Bunn returned to industrial
design after World War II and in 1948 was design manager for the Shaeffer
Pen Company."
HICKMAN
KENTUCKY MURAL "MISSISSIPPI PACKETS" , SMITHSONIAN
HICKMAN
KENTUCKY MURAL "MISSISSIPPI PACKETS" ON FLICKR
MINDEN
MURAL, "MILITARY POST ON THE OVERLAND TRAIL"
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