Sr. Lucia Wiley is my (adopted) home girl! I do believe she is the first post office muralist I’ve encountered who was also a nun. Over the course of her career, she painted landscapes and scenes from Native American life, but she seems to have been best known for her murals.
Sr. Wiley painted four post office murals: Shelby County Fair 1900 (Shelbyville, Illinois), Early Lodging at Koochichin Falls (International Falls, Minnesota), Gathering Wild Rice (Long Prairie, Minnesota), and Captain Gray Entering Tillamook Bay (Tillamook, Oregon).