Above: "Mesquite Wood Train," an oil painting by Frederick Grayson Sayre created while he was in the WPA, ca. 1937. Sayre was born in Medoc, Missouri in 1879, and was a mine worker before becoming an artist. He was an engraver in Texas, and then an illustrator in Chicago, before doctors advised him to move west for his health. He was then "inspired to paint desert scenes in New Mexico and Arizona" before building a home in Coachella Valley, in southern California. Sayre died on New Year's Eve, January 31, 1938. ("Desert Painter's Funeral Is Set," Arizona Republic, January 3, 1939.) Image courtesy of the General Services Administration and the Long Beach Museum of Art.
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