Magnolia post office mural

Magnolia, Columbia County

Joe Jones, a self-taught St. Louis painter famous for wheat fields, painted "Threshing" for Magnolia in 1938. It shows farmers pitching golden wheat into a threshing machine while a horse cart hauls bundles away. The mural now hangs in the Magnolia Public Library at 220 East Main.

Kind of place: Art and murals
Built by: Treasury Section of Fine Arts
When: About 1938
Where: Magnolia, Columbia County
Still there?: Not confirmed lately

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University of Central Arkansas, Arkansas Post Office Murals

Part of Rediscovering Arkansas’s New Deal, a public map of 1930s New Deal work across all 75 counties. Updated 2026-10-14.