Charles Trumbo Henry (1902–1964) was an American artist. His mural ''Northern Georgia'' (1939), an oil on canvas, was painted for the United States Post Office in Cornelia, Georgia, in a Treasury Department art program. He was born in

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. His works are held in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum of Art,

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, Corcoran Gallery in Washington D.C.,

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, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and

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Works

*Landscape mural study for the Cornelia Post Office (1938), tempera on

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held by the

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after a transfer from the Internal Revenue Service through the General Services Administration *''Aspects of the American Industrial Scene'', a mural study for U.S. Department of Labor (1937) tempera on paperboard. At the Smithsonian American Art Museum after transfer from the General Services Administration *''Coal Yard and River'' *''Construction, Power, and Transportation'' (1938) at U.S. Customs and Immigration (formerly Department of Labor)

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1902 births 1964 deaths 20th-century American painters American male painters People from Niagara Falls, New York Painters from New York (state) 20th-century American male artists Section of Painting and Sculpture artists Treasury Relief Art Project artists {{US-painter-1900s-stub