Riverton Post Office

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Location: 501 E Main Street, Riverton, WY
GPS:   43d 1m 28s    -108d 23m 5s
Map / Satellite Image: Google Link
 

Travel Directions:
Entering Riverton from the west, US-26 becomes Main Street.
The post office is to the right, one block east of the Broadway Avenue intersection, at 501 E Main Street.

Remarks:
Riverton’s post office is home to the much-celebrated 1942 mural, “Lambing Time,” by American artist George Vander Sluis (1915-1984). It shows two herders, one with a white hat, the other a dark one, tending sheep and lambs on a ranch. It is evocative of the regionalist style which emerged during the Great Depression and enjoyed a revival during World War II. Vander Sluis’s work enjoyed a degree of prominence and has been shown in major American museums, among them the Metropolitan, the Whitney, and the Corcoran. Of course, it is the subject matter of the Riverton Post Office mural that draws us here.

After you are done admiring and photographing the mural that somehow anticipated an international cultural phenomenon more than 60 years later, purchase a blank postcard or two from the friendly clerk, who will gladly hand-cancel them “Riverton, WY 82501” for you. You can even mail a card to Jake Gyllenhaal from here, although your card may not get the same results that Ennis’s did.

See:
http://www.askart.com/askart/v/george_j_vander_sluis/george_j_vander_sluis.aspx
http://www.wpamurals.com/riverton.htm

Quotation:
“ENNIS comes out of the little post office, casually shuffling through a handful of mail.” [1]

[1] Brokeback Mountain Screenplay, April 16, 2004 white pages with May 5, 2004 blue page revisions, Scene 148, page 101.

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