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  • Decker, Alice,
     
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  • Occupation -- Farm
     
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  • Landscape -- Pennsylvania
     
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    Post Office Panels: The Oldest Church in the Valley, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Decker, Alice, 1901- , sculptor.
    Title: 
    Post Office Panels: The Oldest Church in the Valley, (sculpture).
    Other Titles: 
    Oldest Church in the Valley, (sculpture).
    Post Office Panels: Ploughing, (sculpture).
    Ploughing, (sculpture).
    Post Office Panels: Reaping, (sculpture).
    Reaping, (sculpture).
    Medium: 
    Teak wood.
    Dimensions: 
    3 Panels.
    Description: 
    Two panels show farm workers, one with a plough, one with a scythe. Third panel shows church, an adaptation of the Bindnagle Church, the oldest church in Lebanon Valley, Pennsylvania. Tree and cemetery by church symbolize growth and permanence.
    Subject: 
    Figure
    Occupation -- Farm -- Sowing
    Object -- Tool -- Plow
    Occupation -- Farm -- Harvesting
    Object -- Tool -- Scythe
    Landscape -- Pennsylvania
    Landscape -- Cemetery
    Architecture -- Religious -- Church
    Architecture -- Religious -- Bindnagle Church
    Object Type: 
    Architectural component
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Post Office, Lobby, Palmyra, Pennsylvania
    References: 
    Index of American Sculpture, University of Delaware, 1985
    Note: 
    The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide.
    Repository: 
    Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012
    Control Number: 
    IAS 76009494
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