page_title: Georgina Klitgaard
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Georgina Klitgaard / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: Mural of Historic Track in Goshen, NY, USA, post office
context_page_description: Georgina Klitgaard was an American artist. Klitgaard was known for panoramic landscape paintings of scenic New York from a bird's-eye view perspective. Her work was reviewed in the Los Angeles Times, on April 14, 1929, and in The Art Digest, on November 1, 1929. She painted three murals in United States Post Offices during the Great Depression.
context_section_description: She painted the New Deal era mural Pelham Landscape (1941) at the United States Post Office at Pelham, Georgia.  Klitgaard's mural The Running of the Hambletonian Stake at the United States Post Office (Goshen, New York) (a property listed on the National Register of Historic Places) was controversial for featuring harness racing, a subject deemed unworthy for public art. Postal murals of the era were supposed to focus on local history and contemporary life, but the Treasury Department's Section of Painting and Sculpture strongly objected to her intention to paint the track, asking her to paint a local landscape instead. The community indicated its strong support of the track, and she was allowed to paint it.
  She died in 1976.
caption: "The Running of the Hambletonian Stake" by Georgina Klitgaard at the United States Post Office (Goshen, New York)
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