| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 36.3

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The Texas Post Office Murals: Art for the People. By Philip Parisi. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2005. x + 181 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $50.00.)

President Franklin D. Roosevelt is well-known for his Depression-era relief program, the Works Progress Administration (WPA). A lesser-known aspect of the WPA was the Public Works of Art Project (PWAP), which was largely responsible for a flowering of the creative arts during one of the darkest socioeconomic eras in U. S. history. In the new book, Texas Post Office Murals, Philip Parisi essays the fascinating story of the Texas-based PWAP artists responsible for creating 106 works of public art in federal buildings around the state. Sixty-one of the post office murals have survived and are featured in this beautifully illustrated volume. Not only does the book provide important information about the individual artists and artworks, it also documents and maps locations of the works through an array of illustrations, including many previously unpublished reproductions of historical photographs related to the subject.

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