C.S. Price
C.S. Price was one of the most famous and influential artists to emerge from the government’s Federal Art Project. As an active participant in the FAP, he completed eight large paintings in one year, and continued on to produce a number of murals (10).
“Huckleberry Pickers,” by C.S. Price, 1937
The Timberline Lodge, a WPA project itself, displays the mural above, and an additional piece of C.S. Price’s work as well (11). Price’s New Deal art can also be seen at the Multnomah County Library in Portland, Oregon.
Ernest Norling
Ernest Norling completed a number of Section-sponsored and WPA murals, many of them in Washington.
Ernest Ralph Norling working on a Federal Art Project, 1937. Courtesy of the Photographic Division collection of the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
During an interview, Norling spoke of himself and the other muralists “…we were all very excited over the thing because it was a big thing for us. It was post office murals and the government was backing it so we all tried to do our best,” (12).
This clipping from “The Ellensburg Daily Record” shows Ernest Norling painting a mural featured at a bank in Washington.
Carl A. Morris
In addition to his beautiful, federally-funded work, Morris was also the founder of the Spokane Art Center through the Federal Art Project, and employed his wife, Hilda Grossman as a sculpting teacher at the center (9). His work can be viewed in collections across the U.S., including some very close by–such as the Portland Art Museum, the Tacoma Art Museum, and even the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art on the University of Oregon campus (9).
This mural, entitled, “Lumbering” by Carl A. Morris can be found in our very own Eugene post office.