American Dioramas, American Murals and American Muralists

Resource Library articles and essays honoring the American experience through its art

 

(above:  Carlos Lopez, Bounty, 1940, Treasury Department Section of Painting and Sculpture.  Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)

 

Allen True's West (3/22/11)

Allen True's West (11/13/09)

William Palmer: Drawing from Life (9/2/09)

The Mural Tradition; essay by Edmund Barry Gaither (8/5/09)

Preserving a Legacy: Wishard Hospital Murals (1/29/09)

Forgotten Dreams: The Paintings of Edward Grant (1/13/09)

 

For the People: American Mural Drawings of the 1930s and 1940s; essay by Patricia E. Phagan (5/1/08)

The Holy Experiment: Violet Oakley Mural Studies (11/6/07)

Grant Wood's Corn Room Mural (9/17/07)

Minerva Teichert: Pageants in Paint (7/23/07)

Sampler Tour of Decorative Ceramic Tiles from Catalina Island: photoessay by John Hazeltine (5/23/07)

 

For the People: American Mural Drawings of the 1930s and 1940s (1/23/07)

Reginald Marsh, U.S. Custom House Murals: Reframed and Reseen; article by Lisa Leavitt (7/29/05)

Heroic America: James Daugherty's Mural Drawings from the 1930s; essay by Rebecca E. Lawton (6/23/05)

John Biggers: My America, The 1940s and 1950s -- Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings (1/31/05)

 

Edmund Lewandowski Murals Uncovered at the Flint Institute of Arts (11/30/04)

Eric Bransby: Draftsman and Muralist; essay by William Underwood Eiland (4/28/04)

The Art of Healing: The Wishard Art Collection (2/23/04)

 

"Creating an Iconography for a New State: The Arizona State Capitol Murals," from The Cowboy's Dream: The Mythic Life and Art of Lon Megargee; by Betsy Fahlman (6/7/02)

Albert Henry Krehbiel (1873-1945): American Impressionist, Muralist and Art Educator; article by Donald T. Ryan, Jr (5/25/02)

Those Who Came Before Us: The Indian Murals of H. D. Bugbee (6/22/01)

Exeter's Mural Art: photoessay by John Hazeltine (5/16/00)

 

(above: Jaime Corum, Secretariat, 2022, three-story mural of the legendary racehorse, located on the side of The Baldwin Hotel at 519 Main St., Paris, KY. Photo 2023 by John Hazeltine)

 

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