Hutchinson Post Office

Mural

"Threshing in Kansas"

1942

Artist

1908-1982

During the Great Depression, Lumen Winter took part in the Federal Arts Project set up by the Works Progress Administration, and he painted murals in public schools and post offices. He had been well trained having studied at the Cleveland School of Art, the National Academy of Design, the Grand Central School of Art, and the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design. He also had gone abroad to France and Italy.

Began painting, 1923; asst. to Ezra Augustus Winter in execution of Radio City murals, George Rogers Clark Meml. murals, Vincennes, Ind.; murals and sculpture executed several pub. and pvt. bldgs., including: labor and space murals AFL-CIO, Washington, Refectory at Univ. Notre Dame, Ch. St. Paul, The Apostle, N.Y.C., New Penn Sheraton Bldg., Phila., Murray Bldg., J.F.K. Meml., Internat. Union Elec., Radio and Machine Workers, Washington, East Bklyn. Savs. Bank, Apollo XIII Space mural St. Regis Hotel, Gerald R. Ford Ctr., Grand Rapids, Mich., Titans Mural Gen. Assembly, UN; mosaic Pub. Sch. 60, Staten Island, Dove of Peace Sculpture at City Hall Plaza, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.; sculpture for library Fairfield U. USAF Acad., Astor Home for Children, Rhinebeck, N.Y., South Shore High Sch., N.Y., Cathedral Coll. Immaculate Conception, Shrine of Our Lady, 30-foot bronze, Haverstraw, N.Y.; Thornton Donovan Sch., New Rochelle, N.Y.; monumental abstract sculpture Library Plaza, New Rochelle; designed ofcl. medallion for Apollo XIII flight; mural awards Nat. Competitions for Senate Chamber, Wash. State Capitol Bldg., 1948, Va. State Library, 1950, Rotunda murals Kans. State Capitol, Topeka, 1976, Gold medal exhbns. Archtl. League N.Y., 1951-52; Ranger Fund Purchase, N.A.O.; Petersen; Debellis and William A. White awards Salmagundi Club, many others; exhibited pvt., pub. galleries U.S. and abroad including Mus. Modern Art, Whitney Mus., Topeka Art Guild, Nat. Acad. Design, Penn Acad. Internat.; one-man shows numerous galleries including Grand Rapids Art Mus., Galerie Internationale, N.Y.C.; represented Artiests for Victory, Library of Congress, many pvt. and pub. collections including Santa Fe Trail Ctr., Larned, Kans.; Art Inst. Chgo., U. Israel, Vatican; sculpture for Kans. State Hist. Soc., Topeka; illustrator numerous books; co-author (with Harrison Kinney) and illustrator: The Last Supper of Leonardo Da Vinci.