These are the other half of the ones I started with just lettering - and tried to come up with something else. I like the border on Irene's. Overall, it's fairly simple - which is usually fine with me. Although I've been filling up a little more space recently.
Jean gets a round stamp every month and I think there are 4 or 5 still to come. As I say every time one of these pops up, I should have done all of them at once - since the roundness is a very strong and fun design element to lead the way.
Once again, Janet ends up with a ho-hum, bordering on dud. I need to establish a rating system for envelopes. Also a system where Janet doesn't keep getting duds.
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This is the end of the outgoing June mail. Also the end of me talking about post office murals from the 1930s. The person who took these photos - but doesn't have her name on her Flickr account had this to say - which clarifies that thing I wrote a couple days ago about wondering if I had the name correct - and I did not.
She wrote:
Although it's often assumed that the New Deal-era Post Office murals were WPA art projects, they were actually painted by artists working for the Section of Fine Arts that was administered by the Treasury Department. The main goal of "The Section" was to make art accessible to all people by funding high quality art to decorate public buildings. More than eleven hundred post office murals and sculptures for federal buildings were created under the Treasury Relief Art Project (TRAP).
The oil painting on canvas is "Time Out" by Joseph P. Vorst (1942). It is the Bethany, MO post office
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So, now we know and I am not going to go back and correct my earlier posts. Or maybe I will add a disclaimer when I do a final edit right before this pops up.
I'm not going to search for info on the artist, Joseph P. Vorst. I noticed that he has the farm wife wearing heels. That seems a little odd.
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