Tucson Mailbox Art

A few weeks ago, I posted a mailbox like this one — but more stylized. Another one, with the mailbox partly surrounded by rocks, is at 2...

We usually don't show mailboxes with big stuccoed posts because there are so many around town. But this mailbox — which is buried in a...

I've seen a few mailboxes around town with posts made of a cage full of rocks. This is one of them. I found it on June 21st. Here...

This hand-painted mailbox looked unfinished to me. A boy riding his bike told me that the box had been there since his family moved in — so...

This isn't the only mailbox in the neighborhood with what looks like a planter on the opposite side of its post: I was there June 21st...

Check the closeup below — you click on it for a larger view — and you'll see that this mailbox has a manufactured cover. (Check the d...

This mailbox has seen better days. It has pieces of wood on the front and back, but they're half broken and the paint has faded. Also,...

Except for the rocks it's mounted on, this set of handlebars with a mailbox looked ready to roll when I drove by on June 21st.

Just in time for the 4th of July… this mailbox is about the most red, white, and blue you can get. I stopped by and saluted on June 21st...

It looks like some kid(s) had fun painting this mailbox… I found it on December 29, 2018.

Tucson artist K. Loren Dawn enjoys trips to the tropics. She also has an eye for mailboxes — and sends ones she spots along the way. Here ar...

Here's a mailbox with an intricate design on one side… …and a simpler one on the other: I took the photos April 14th.

No, I have no idea why someone would put a big rock underneath their mailbox. (But Glenn Street in midtown has more than its share of, er...

Though lots of mailboxes are embedded in a stuccoed post, this one is different because there's a planter next to it. The bright desig...

OK, I've already used the title “This Mailbox Rocks” on another box. Hmmm… Anyway, the post looks like sandstone — maybe over concre...

Dots in swirls on this bright box: If found it on April 14th.

I was on the Heart of Tucson Art open studio tour April 14th when, as I turned onto Treat Avenue, I saw this box topped with two birds. ...

Along the route of the Oracle Artist Studio Tour on April 6th, I came across this mailbox outside Michael Carroll's place. What can I...

This simple box has butterfly decals on a red background. I spotted it in February and noticed that one side had only one decal. I came back...

I pulled over to check my map near dusk on the evening of February 26th. Near the car was a plain-looking mailbox in a cinder-block box p...

Just next door to last week's "Golfbox" (you can see it closer in the entry 9311 East Anne Place ) is this wild-looking box ...

For obvious reasons, David Aber named this "Golfbox". It has been modified to resemble a golf bag and clubs. He sent it on Febru...

David Aber finds phenomenal mailboxes. Even by his usual standard, this one (a castle on top of a dragon?!) seemed too good to be handmade...

Driving along Silverbell on February 2nd, I ended up taking a wrong turn and winding along a road between a bland-looking subdivision and ...