We lived in a town with a post office mural, which was was funded by the U.S. Treasury Department's Section of Fine Arts. It was painted in 1941, at the tail end of the mural project. When the funding dried up, some postmasters expressed dismay. Basil V. Jones ( who served in the Missouri General Assembly in the 1950s) was stationed at Rich Hill. I don't see the Rich Hill Post Office as a location for a mural, but this quote makes me think there was some SFA or WPA art somewhere in the town.
In behalf of many smaller cities, wholly without objects of art, as ours was, may I beseech you and the Treasury to give them some art, more of it, whenever you find it possible to do so. How can a finished citizen be made in an artless town?Perhaps I should copy down the locations of these murals so we can stop and see them if we happen to be in town.