William C. Palmer

[1] He studied at the Art Students League under Boardman Robinson, Thomas Hart Benton, and Kenneth Hayes Miller, and studied fresco painting at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Fontainebleau, France.

During the depression he was taken on at 24 dollars a week to paint murals funded by the Public Works of Art Project.

[3] His paintings are also on display at the U.S. Post Offices in Arlington, Massachusetts and Monticello, Iowa and at the William Jefferson Clinton Federal Building in Washington, D.C..

The mural based on Pasteur at the Queens General Hospital in Jamaica, New York has been said to be used to teach doctors and nurses.

[4] This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the Bureau of Reclamation.

Palmer at work
Purchase of Land and Modern Tilling of the Soil , Arlington, Massachusetts, 1938