Antique Murals

Bands of vibrant, warm orange, yellow, and deep red lacquer are meticulously detailed with scrolling floral vines and geometric motifs, heavily inspired by classical South Indian tem...

The son of celebrated painter and stained-glass designer John La Farge, he began his career assisting in his father’s studio before developing an independent practice encompassing la...

The panels can be positioned to use as a self-supporting room divider or privacy screen, even mounted to the wall as a mural; the reverse side does show evidence of prior water damag...

He was also known for his fine murals and frescoes. Ernest, with Alicia as his assistant, worked on two murals, one for the post office in Canton, Mass., and one in Washington, D.C....

He later moved to Santa Cruz in 1896, where he settled, painting murals for many local businessmen and the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk.

He perfected a technique in enlarging pictures to mural size which had many followers. His paintings have been displayed in New York galleries during his lifetime.

A su regreso, realizó encargos para diversas parroquias catalanas, destacando los murales del Monestir de Montserrat (1927–1930) y las vidrieras del Temple del Sagrat Cor de Jesús en...

From his acquaintances in the theater world, Shinn began to paint decorative “rococo revivalist” murals in the homes of the wealthy elite. He also worked extensively in pastel, portr...

In 1914, Henderson built a house and studio of his own design at Lake Bluff, Illinois, and in the same year he was commissioned by Frank Lloyd Wright to design murals for Midway Gard...

He perfected a technique in enlarging pictures to mural size which had many followers. His paintings have been displayed in New York galleries during his lifetime.

Medium: Oil on Wood Panel Signature: Signed ‘Parrish’ (On the Reverse) Finished painting done as a prototype for the mural at the University of Pennsylvania LITERATURE L.S.

He perfected a technique in enlarging pictures to mural size which had many followers. His paintings have been displayed in New York galleries during his lifetime.

Stylistic and Typological Classification As early as the 8th century, murals in Santa Maria Antiqua in Rome depict Saint Anne with her daughter Mary; however, these do not yet repre...

This impressive late 19th century French chromolithograph depicts "The Last Supper", after Leonardo da Vinci’s world-famous mural in Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan. Printed in Paris...

His best-known mural, Le Départ des poilus, août 1914 (Departure of the Infantrymen, August 1914), is in the Gare de Paris-Est railroad station in Paris.

Aubry; vases, dishes and plates; in 1912 four sets for La Lumière by Georges Duhamel, performed at the Odéon; in 1916 a screen for the Le Havre collector Léon Pédron; in 1918 panels ...

He specialized in watercolors and oils of the Sierra Nevada and highly detailed floral still lifes. He also painted murals for the stations of the Santa Fe and Southern Pacific railr...

(Francois) Laubnitz" he painted pictures that were very popular as mural prints in the first half of the 20th century.

From 1930 onwards, however, Parent withdrew from artistic circles to work in solitude, withdrawn from the world, with the sole exception of the murals he painted for the Hôtel de Vil...

Herter was a member of Society of American Artists, 1894; Associate National academy of Design, 1906, American WaterColor Society; N.Y. Water Color Club; Mural Painters; NY Architect...

Jansson was one of seven artists who painted murals in the Swedish Club’s banquet hall, a project completed in 1922.

He died in his hometown of Coshocton, preparing to do an historic mural for his high school. Source: Walt Reed, "The Illustrator in America" Peggy and Harold Samuels, "Encyclopedia ...

Beyond the canvas, Jespers explored a wide range of media: etchings, linocuts, stained glass, mural painting, and tapestry design. His monumental designs were featured at internation...

He later moved to Santa Cruz in 1896, where he settled, painting murals for many local businessmen and the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk.

In the 1920s and 30s, he did numerous American Scene paintings and painted WPA murals during the Depression. From 1913 to 1952, he earned his living as a lithographer but during this...

He also made watercolors of murals from Pompeii and Herculaneum. Paestum was a major ancient Greek city on the coast of the Tyrrhenian Sea, in Magna Graecia, province of Salerno, Ca...

Hand-painted on glazed ceramic tiles and assembled as a mural panel, the work displays expressive brushwork, a subdued earthy palette of greens and browns, and a naturally aged craqu...

While Gypsy worked as a performer, de Diego developed a show for the carnival using surrealist murals and the performance of Freudian themes. The couple later divorced in Reno, Nevad...

He developed the basic design course and taught the mural painting workshop. Kandinsky also worked much and experimented with colour, applying his analytical foundation and the concl...

From then on she began to receive a steady stream of mural commissions, most importantly those for Lord Beaverbrook’s dining room (1928) and the Bank Underground Station (1929).

He also executed a 125 foot mural for the art gallery at the Public Library.

Reuben Kadish (1913–1991): Created the surrealist WPA mural "A Dissertation on Alchemy" in San Francisco, which was recently restored in 2023.

Emerging around 1480 from the exploration of the mural paintings of Nero’s Domus Aurea in Rome, this type of ornament transposes into stone a vocabulary of extraordinary inventive fr...

Davis Faculty Show 1964; The Art Bank of the San Francisco Art Association, 1958, 59, 60, 62,63; Public Collections: San Francisco Museum of Art; Mural, Stanford University

Decorative panel depicting two stylized celestial dancers in symmetrical composition, rendered in a manner inspired by traditional Thai court painting and temple mural decoration. Th...

He died in his hometown of Coshocton, preparing to do an historic mural for his high school. Source: Walt Reed, "The Illustrator in America" Peggy and Harold Samuels, "Encyclopedia ...

He was included in the MoMA show Murals by American painters and photographers 1932, along with Ben Shahn, Stuart Davis, Bernice Abbott, George Biddle, Ernst Fiene and many other WPA...

He created large decorative murals for the German shipping pavilion at the 1900 Paris World's Fair.

The composition, though fragmented in its origin, achieves aesthetic unity through the careful arrangement of the pieces, evoking the grand mural coverings of the Portuguese Baroque....

Beckwith and Sargent assisted Carolus-Duran in painting a ceiling mural in the Louvre in 1877, and Beckwith went on to win prizes at the Paris Salon, medals at the Paris Expositions ...

Kingsbury also specialized in miniature and mural painting. Kingsbury was born in Boston, MA in 1855.

Work and Significance Decorative and Mural Painting: Pose was regarded as a skilled decorative painter.

An exceptional Green River Formation fossil fish triptych mural, presenting a richly detailed composition of over 50 individual specimens across three 4-foot-wide by 8-foot-tall pane...

In 1916, at the request of Lord Beaverbrook, he created murals depicting the battles of Arras and Ypres for the Canadian Parliament.

Between 1930 and 1933, he produced successive versions of a mural 5 by 55 feet (1.5 by 16.5 metres) which developed the theme of the Itinerary from Paris to Ste-Adresse and the Sea.

Torhamn became known for his portraits, figure studies, and public commissions, including murals and decorative works. His art often combines a strong sense of structure with a sensi...

Between 1930 and 1933, he produced successive versions of a mural 5 by 55 feet (1.5 by 16.5 metres) which developed the theme of the Itinerary from Paris to Ste-Adresse and the Sea.

Although active as a decorative painter and mural artist during the early part of his career, he is today primarily remembered for his evocative depictions of Lapland, Värmland, and ...

He later worked independently and developed a following as a mural painter. His reputation was certainly enhanced by the mural Christ, the Good Shepherd for the Baptist Church in Sou...

No other painter of the time was so consistently engaged in large-scale monumental works. His murals demonstrate that this artist possessed the energy to compose on immense surfaces ...

Laubnitz, producing widely admired mural prints. He died on 16 April 1952 in Niederpoyritz, and his legacy is preserved today in the Dresden State Art Collections, confirming his las...

His father created lace designs and encouraged his son's artistic ambition, apprenticing him to a mural painter. During this period he also studied under Ernest Quost (1844-1931) who...

Eduardo often collaborated on mural commissions with his father and brother Virgilio.

Lebduska returned to the United States when he was eighteen and settled in New York. He painted murals across the city and worked for the Works Progress Administration during the Gre...

He also executed important public commissions, notably the mural Happy Metro to You in 1974 in the Park metro station in Brussels.

In 1919 Labaudt began teaching at the California School of Fine Arts. Labaudt painted murals in public buildings in Los Angeles, and, during the WWII was one a select few civilian ar...

Preferring to work in watercolour he also painted in tempera and oil as well as making many designs for murals and stained glass. His work often incorporated symbolism.

Vertès is also responsible for the original murals in the Café Carlyle in the Carlyle Hotel in New York City and for those in the Peacock Alley in the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, also in ...

Confined to his bed and weakened by illness, Matisse nonetheless orchestrated every aspect of the chapel — from the stained-glass windows and murals to the vestments and liturgical o...

From 1902 onwards he was frequently invited to the USA to produce commissioned portraits of numerous public figures, as well as murals in a number of towns. He was also invited to ex...