116 N. Third Avenue
Piggott, Arkansas
870-598-2706
The Treasury Department’s Section of Painting and Sculpture commissioned approximately 1,200 murals and 300 relief sculptures to be placed in post offices across the country between 1934 and 1943. The Piggott Post Office is one of 21 Arkansas post offices that had murals installed in their lobbies between 1939 and 1942. Daniel Rhodes was commissioned for $700 to create a mural after the original artist, Loyle Houser, did not perform in a timely manner. Rhodes had composed a mural centered on communications entitled Communication by Mail for the Marion, Iowa, post office in 1939. He employed a similar theme for the Piggott mural, lauding the significance of airmail for small, isolated communities in rural America. The mural depicts a scene of extolling the ideas of communication. At the left, a local citizen hands a letter to the postmaster, who subsequently assists the pilots loading the mailbags onto the idling airplane in the center. The scene eulogizes modern technology and its ability to connect rural America to the rest of the world.
Visiting the Piggott Post Office Mural
The Post Office is open during normal business hours but entry to the building is available 24 hours a day allowing the mural to be seen at any time.
There is no charge to visit the Piggott Post Office Mural.
