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  2. List of artwork by John Steuart Curry - Wikipedia

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    Tragic Prelude, mural by John Steuart Curry, in the Kansas State Capitol. One of Curry's most famous works are the murals designed for the Kansas State Capitol, in Topeka, Kansas. In June 1937, newspaper editors raised money to commission John Steuart Curry (who was the most famous artist in Kansas) to paint murals in the statehouse.

  3. Seymour Fogel - Wikipedia

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    In the latter stage of his mural career, he used mosaic as his primary medium. In 1974, Seymour Fogel relocated his studio from New York City to his residence in Weston. In this last decade of his life, Fogel focused entirely on atavistic art in a variety of forms: paintings, drawings, collages and both painted and raw wood constructions.

  4. The Epic of American Civilization - Wikipedia

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    The mural was designated a National Historic Landmark in 2013. [3] Orozco painted the mural during the same time his fellow muralist, Diego Rivera, was working on his murals at the Rockefeller Center in New York. But while Rivera's portrait of Lenin led to his mural being painted over, Orozco was given full political freedom to paint as he chose.

  5. List of United States post office murals - Wikipedia

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    The murals were intended to boost the morale of the American people suffering from the effects of the Depression by depicting uplifting subjects the people knew and loved. [3] Murals produced through the Treasury Department's Section of Painting and Sculpture (1934–1943) were funded as a part of the cost of the construction of new post ...

  6. United States post office murals - Wikipedia

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    Artists were asked to paint in an "American scene" style, depicting ordinary citizens in a realistic manner. Abstract art, modern art, social realism, and allegory were discouraged. [7] [2] Artists were also encouraged to produce works that would be appropriate to the communities where they were to be located and to avoid controversial subjects ...

  7. Tragic Prelude - Wikipedia

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    Tragic Prelude is a mural painted by the American artist John Steuart Curry for the Kansas State Capitol building in Topeka, Kansas. It is located on the east side of the second floor rotunda. On the north wall it depicts the abolitionist John Brown with a Bible in one hand, on which the Greek letters alpha and omega of Revelation 1:8 can be seen.

  8. Murals of Los Angeles - Wikipedia

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    For the 1984 Summer Olympics, a series of ten murals were painted along the 110 and 101 freeways as part of the Olympic Arts Festival. [ 107 ] [ 108 ] [ 109 ] Beginning in 2007 after years of disrepair and tagging , Caltrans "hibernated" the murals, applying a coating and layer of gray paint to be removed later for restoration.

  9. José Clemente Orozco - Wikipedia

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    Later that year, he painted murals at the New School for Social Research, New York City, now known as The New School. One of his most famous murals is The Epic of American Civilization at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, USA. It was painted between 1932 and 1934 and covers almost 300 m 2 (3200 square feet) in 24 panels.