Thanks to the Center for Painted Wall Preservation a group of early nineteenth-century New England murals found a new home at the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens
Monumental confidence: restored Roosevelt murals
from The Magazine ANTIQUES, January/February 2013 | One hundred years ago, even fifty years ago, the act of monumental commemoration was a relatively simple affair. A victory in battle or the founding of an institution was seen, at least as regarded the monument in question, to be completely good. A massacre or natural catastrophe was assumed to be completely bad. Anyone deserving …
Amistad and after: Hale Woodruff’s Talladega murals
from The Magazine ANTIQUES, September/October 2012 | The new exhibition Rising Up: Hale Woodruff’s Murals at Talladega College offers unprecedented access to murals that for more than seventy years have resided at the historically black school in Alabama-and a compelling lesson in American history. It is the culmination of a collaboration between Talladega and the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, which …