Frank Mechau

He married Helena Breuer and the couple moved to Brown County, Kansas, where they had seven children, including Mechau's father Frank Albert (b.

Horses at Night was followed in 1935 by two Mechau murals that were selected for placement in the new Post Office Department Building designed to incorporate large works of art.

[3] Researcher Jessy Ohl describes the main painting as showing three "naked white women (being) scalped in a sexually explicit manner" in the bottom right hand of the painting, where they are shown kneeling and bent awkwardly toward the sky and ground by three Native Americans.

[5] Art historian Karal Ann Marling describes the figures of the women as "clearly female, to be sure, thanks to volumetric mass".

[7] Mechau's last New Deal murals were three oil-on-canvas panels commissioned for the Eldon B. Mahon United States Courthouse building located in Fort Worth, Texas.

There is a figure riding a horse in front of some of the cattle, herding them, and farther into the distance the landscape starts to fade out, though hills can still be seen.

[9] Mechau married Paula Ralska, who at the time worked in the advertising department of Lord & Taylor.