Antique Murals

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...

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....

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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).

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...

He was assigned to Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, where he painted murals for the officers' lounge and other special assignments for Col.

He was assigned to Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, where he painted murals for the officers' lounge and other special assignments for Col.

This style of ornamental mural painting was often commissioned for opulent 19th-century interiors, salons, or grand dining rooms, inspired by the Renaissance and Rococo traditions of...

His most notable work includes murals painted for the Bethlehem Church [Brooklyn], an Altar piece in the Zion Church [Worcester, Mass.], and a memorial portrait and altar piece in th...

During his tenure at the University of Kentucky, Rannells was closely involved with four Public Works of Art Project/Works Progress Administration-funded murals and paintings in Kent...

This engraving presents the Ephesian Artemis in her distinctive archaic form: a rigid frontal figure crowned with a mural headdress, arms extended, and a body covered with symbolic r...

He also undertook various commissions such as tapestries for the Gobelin factory and murals for the liner Normandie and the Town Hall at Aubervilliers in the 1930’s.

Searching for a technology for “new frescoes” the artist created murals of cabaret, cinema (not preserved, but mentioned by friends and art historians).

His works are in the collection of the Smithsonian as well as the Deshong Museum in Pennsylvania, and one of his murals, depicting George Washington crossing the Delaware River, is i...

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.

Earthy, theatrical, and intricately textured, this textile captures the pastoral imagination of Belle Époque France. Mural in spirit but easier to place—measuring 47.5 inches across—...

Narrow in proportion—just 48.75 inches across—it offers the impact of a mural with far greater ease of placement, ideal as a statement wall piece or soft architectural anchor.

During the 1930s he was a regional director for the Works Progress Administration (WPA) federal art project, creating notable murals in Santa Monica. MacDonald-Wright spent the re...

Born in Cleveland in 1885 to German immigrant parents, he apprenticed at an early age to his father, a painter trained in Germany who produced decorative murals for fashionable homes...

Following this, he relocated to Santa Cruz in 1896 and began painting murals for local businesses. Lemos was the first concessionaire at the Santa Cruz Boardwalk and Beach Casino whe...

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...

A beautiful mural model reproducing a horseshoe arch doorway, intricately carved in wood in a geometric pattern typical of Mudejar art.

An exquisite relief mural model, finely polychromed and gilded, depicting in great detail a double arch from the Nasrid architecture of the Alhambra in Granada.

Although accomplished in decorative arts and mural work, Burd became best known for her illustrations for children’s literature and for her widely circulated magazine covers.

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

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...

She also worked for a time as an assistant to Diego Rivera on a mural project, and as an art teacher hired by the Works Progress Administration, which helped support many artists in ...

The choice of the grass juice technique, used to obtain a warm, earthy, and velvety color range, gives the work a discreet but profound material quality, in dialogue with the mural p...

Prat is most known for his wall paintings, murals and portrait work. It is noted that he was well known for his spontaneity, with some of his artistic expression being conveyed perfe...

Saint-Étienne is represented as a strong, dignified woman guarding her heritage (the shield) and her industry (the scroll/helmet). Above her head is a mural crown parapet that is fro...

The softly structured pattern reads almost like a mural or textile panel, drawing the eye laterally rather than inward.

In the United States, the Nichols School in Evanston near Chicago houses a mural painted in 1929 after compositions by Francesco Guardi and Félix Ziem, representing a view of the Gra...

Each of the four corners is symmetrically mirrored, evoking the feel of a ceiling fresco or mural, which is characteristic of Viennese decorative arts from this period.

Picart Le Doux painted self-portraits, portraits of family and notable friends, still lifes, impressionistic landscapes, and murals. He was also, for more than four decades, a prolif...

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...

The composition presents Cybele in multiple sculptural types, standing and enthroned, accompanied by her traditional attributes, including the mural crown and the lion, emphasizing h...

The softly structured pattern reads almost like a mural or textile panel, drawing the eye laterally rather than inward.

Historical Significance Karl Yens, born in Germany and trained in Europe, immigrated to the United States and became a significant figure in California’s art scene. Best known for hi...

Butler would briefly return to the United States between 1913 and 1921, creating important murals and participating in major exhibitions such as the Armory Show, and then return to G...

There followed the ceiling of the Galerie d'Apollon in the Louvre (1850-1851), the decorations in the Salon de la Paix of the Hôtel de Ville of Paris (1852-1854, destroyed in 1871), ...

Born in Cleveland in 1885 to German immigrant parents, he apprenticed at an early age to his father, a painter trained in Germany who produced decorative murals for fashionable homes...

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Received a major commission for the 1937 Paris World's Fair to paint the mural "La Fee Electricite". Worked extensively in various media, producing woodcuts, textiles, ceramics, and ...