Webb Garrison: Old Schoolhouse

Artist: Webb Garrison
1944 -
Nationality: American
Artwork Year: 1979
Image Size: 8.625 by 5.75 inches
Overall Size: 13 by 10.625 inches
Medium: Black Ink on Hot Press Illustration Board

Since our nation's very early years, Americans have been an educationally minded people. No country in the history of the world has devoted so much of its resources to educate its young. Indeed, in a land of diverse people -- immigrants of widely different religion, language, race, and origin -- education has made us a nation of unified people with important values in common. Even in the rough and remote western prairies, Americans wanted schooling for their children, and often this instruction was delivered in a one room wooden schoolhouse like the one depicted on this First Day Cover. In the West, as in the rest of America, young girls, recently graduated from high school or from special teaching courses taught the youngsters. In these small schoolhouses spread all across America, anywhere from five to fifteen students ranging in age from six to sixteen years old studied the basic "3 R's" -- reading, writing and arithmetic -- under the guidance and direction of one teacher. Often, the students would attend the school rather sporadically, for as crops became ready for harvest they were needed at home. The simple school featured on this artwork, a remnant of this era so dear to American hearts, still stands at Devil's Lake, North Dakota. As one of the few remaining one room schoolhouses, it has become a symbol of what education was like once, when America was very young.

This painting originally appeared on the Fleetwood® First Day Cover for the U.S. 30¢ One Room Schoolhouse stamp issued August 27, 1989.

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