Arthur Sinclair Covey (June 13, 1877 – February 5, 1960) was an American muralist whose paintings depicted industrial workers doing their jobs.
Covey was born in Leroy, Illinois on June 13, 1877[1] and was married to Mary Dorothea Sale from 1908 until her death in 1917.
[5] Covey attended Southwestern College and studied for three years at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he graduated in 1899.
His works include a 1927 series of images of workers at industries in Toledo, Ohio which were first exhibited in display windows of a Toledo department store, Lasalle & Koch[6] and seven murals showing foundry workers for the Kohler Company in Sheboygan County, Wisconsin.
[8][4] The papers and much of the artwork of Arthur Covey, dating from 1882 to 1960, are stored in a collection at the Archives of American Art of the Smithsonian Institution.