Historic post office thumb|Post office mural The Venice Post Office, a red-tile-roofed 1939 New Deal building designed by Louis A. SimonVenice Post Office Los Angeles Conservancy Retrieved April 24, 2014 on Windward Circle, featured one of two remaining murals painted in 1941 by Modernist artist Edward Biberman. Developer Abbot Kinney is in the centerTobar, Hector (November 11, 2011), There's a special stamp on the Venice post office Los Angeles Times. surrounded by beachgoers in old-fashioned bathing suits, men in overalls, and a wooden roller coaster representing the Venice Pier on one side with contrasting industrial oil derricks that were once ubiquitous in the area on the other side.Groves, Martha (January 7, 2010), Producer Joel Silver buys former U.S. post office in Venice Los Angeles Times. Senior curator of American Art at Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Ilene Susan Fort, said this is one of the better New Deal post office murals both artistically and historically. Although it contains brightly colored elements with amusing details, the intrusion of the ominous oil rigs and wells was very relevant at the time.Vankin, Deborah, (June 17, 2014) "Restored 'Abbot Kinney' mural anchors exhibit on Venice history" Los Angeles Times; accessed February 7, 2022.
Historic post office thumb|Post office mural The Venice Post Office, a red-tile-roofed 1939 New Deal building designed by Louis A. SimonVenice Post Office Los Angeles Conservancy Retrieved April 24, 2014 on Windward Circle, featured one of two remaining murals painted in 1941 by Modernist artist Edward Biberman. Developer Abbot Kinney is in the centerTobar, Hector (November 11, 2011), There's a special stamp on the Venice post office Los Angeles Times. surrounded by beachgoers in old-fashioned bathing suits, men in overalls, and a wooden roller coaster representing the Venice Pier on one side with contrasting industrial oil derricks that were once ubiquitous in the area on the other side.Groves, Martha (January 7 2010), Producer Joel Silver buys former U.S. post office in Venice Los Angeles Times. Senior curator of American Art at Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Ilene Susan Fort said this is one of the better New Deal post office murals both artistically and historically. Although it contains brightly colored elements with amusing details, the intrusion of the ominous oil rigs and wells was very relevant at the time.Vankin Deborah, (June 17, 2014) "Restored 'Abbot Kinney' mural anchors exhibit on Venice history" Los Angeles Times; accessed February 7, 2022.