page_title: Suzanne Scheuer
section_title: Murals
hierarchical_section_title: Suzanne Scheuer / Murals
caption_attribution_description: English: U.S. Post Office Mural (detail), "Incidents in California History" (1937) by Suzanne Scheuer This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Its reference number is 81000144
context_page_description: Suzanne Scheuer was an American fine artist best known for her New Deal-era murals.
context_section_description: In 1933 Scheuer was chosen by Ralph Stackpole to be one of the Coit Tower muralists. Given a choice of California trade and commerce to portray, she selected the theme of "industry", given a family connection to the petroleum industry. She lost out to John Langley Howard for "industry", and accepted the Coit Tower mural theme of "newspapers". The mural was later named Newsgathering. She prepared by sketching the editorial, typesetting, and printing operations at the San Francisco Chronicle. Her assistant on the Coit Tower mural was noted artist Hebe Daum, who would later marry Stackpole.
  In 1937 she received a commission from the U.S. Treasury Department's Section of Fine Arts to paint the mural titled Incidents in California History in the Berkeley post office. She also received commissions in 1938 to paint two other post office murals: Indians Moving in Caldwell, Texas and Buffalo Hunt in Eastland, Texas. The Caldwell mural was moved to the Burleson County Courthouse, and mural studies for the Caldwell and Eastland murals are now part of the permanent collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
caption: Incidents in California History mural at the United States Post Office, Berkeley (detail)
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