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"