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Wynne post office mural

Wynne, Cross County

Photograph of Wynne post office mural
Image: Ethel Magafan, public domain (Treasury Section of Fine Arts), via Wikimedia Commons Source

Ethel Magafan visited Wynne and sketched people at work in the cotton fields before painting "Cotton Pickers" in 1939. Pickers carry loaded sacks to a wagon to be weighed against a wide Delta field. She installed it with help from her twin sister, Jenne. It still hangs in the Wynne post office.

Kind of place
Art and murals
Built by
Treasury Section of Fine Arts
When
About 1939
Where
Wynne, Cross County
Still there?
Not confirmed lately

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