| Address: | 223 W. Lillie, Madill, OK | County: | Marshall |
| Started: | Completed: | 1938 | |
| Agencies: | Treasury Department | NRHP: | April 17, 2009 |
Current Usage:
Post office / Mural is still hung in the original building.
Description:
Filling the wall space above the postmaster’s door is a mural title Prairie Fire painted by Ethel Magafan and installed in 1940. The mural shows a woman grasping a child in a a Conestoga wagon about to be engulfed in flames. The wagon is pulled by four yoked oxen agitated by the conflagration. Two men carrying shovels rush to dig a break to stop the fire from spreading. The scene vividly depicts the action and chaos associated with traveling across and settling the prairies.[4]
Ethel Magafan (1916-1993) was born in Chicago but spent most of their lives in Colorado. [4]
Coordinates: 34.09042 -96.77268
Sources:
- Oklahoma Landmarks Inventory
- Park and Markowitz, Democratic Vistas, Post Offices and Public Art in the New Deal, 1984.
- New Deal Art Registry
- National Register of Historic Places
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