Antique Murals

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...

He also designed murals for three first-floor corridors in the House wing, now called the Cox Corridors, and a tour de force set of murals for the W.A.

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 ...

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.

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

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.

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...

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...

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...

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

The artist is best known for a series of wall murals he painted at the Church of St Nicholas and the Blessed Virgin Mary in Stowey, as well as a portrait of Rudyard Kipling, but he a...

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...

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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 ...

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...

Emerson was awarded the Fellowship Prize by the Academy in 1918 for her mural decorations. When they were unveiled at The Little Theatre, Violet Oakley praised both the quality of th...

During the late 1930s, Deutsch undertook numerous commissions for the Works Project Association (WPA) including murals for post offices in Hot Springs, New Mexico, and Reedley, Calif...

He explored fresco and mosaic techniques and executed murals in various mediums in Switzerland, France, and Italy during the 1920s.

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...

During the Great Depression, the Works Progress Administration commissioned Klitgaard to create murals for three U.S. post offices: Goshen (1937) and Poughkeepsie (1940) in New York,...

Sparrow exhibited widely and with success including at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Architectural League of New York, the Brooklyn Museum, the Salons of America and with the Soc...

He utilized both oil and watercolor mediums, capturing still lifes as well as urban portraits from the subway and streets of Brooklyn that developed from his mural projects for the W...

His work was well regarded by both critics and the public and he began to receive important commissions for both murals and oils. In 1920, he returned to New York and opened a galler...

His considerable official career brought him honours, purchases and commissions. He painted mural compositions in the Palais du Luxembourg, and the Hôtel de Ville in Paris.

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), ...

Andrew Lund is known for murals, landscapes, missions, and portraits. Medium: Oil Paint on Linen Signature: Lower right corner "A.

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...

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...

Rosetsu créa plus de 140 peintures murales et sur paravents pendant cette courte période, dont la plupart ont été classées biens culturels importants.

He created a full size wall mural for the Cleveland Public Library entitled "Dominance of the City."

He went on to exhibit consistently in Paris and later in London, receiving numerous commissions for decorative murals as well as oil paintings for the theater of Chatellerault.

As part of the WPA project, he executed a number of murals, including the Sports Pavilion on the Heinz Building of the New York World's Fair 1939.

At the studio where Lebasque first studied, Leon Bonnart’s emphasis upon draughtsmanship and mural decorations found inspiration in Lebasque’s own approach to painting.

Other Work: He also designed murals in various buildings in Karlsruhe and at the University Library in Heidelberg.

He became a WPA artist, doing murals in northeastern Ohio. After his death at age 82, he was largely forgotten until 1980 when Hilton Kramer, a "New York Times" critic, praised his ...

The decoration to the anterior of each handle terminal incorporates a contemporary bright cut engraved crest depicting out of a mural crown a spear in pale and two palm branches in s...

Although he did at least three murals in Quebec, it is his 1953 mural for the Canadian Pacific Railway that is most widely known.

Known for his exceptional skill in painting wood to resemble marble and his seamless integration of walls with imported European murals, he was a trusted collaborator of architect Da...

The profile recalls the Apostle at the far left of The Last Supper, and may even derive directly from Leonardo’s own compositional sketches for the mural (Gallerie dell’Accademia, Ve...

He also became a prominent participant in the WPA mural program. He did a series of works that received much attention at the time, of circus performers.

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...

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...

He was also a fine illustrator, mural decorator and stained glass designer.

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...

Over the course of a long and storied career, he received a number of prestigious public commissions that included mural decorations for the Royal Academy of Art. He exhibited for ma...

Among Lawrence’s notable murals are ones in Laing Art Gallery and Museum, Newcastle; Palace of Westminster; and Bank of England.

In the 1930s, while working on public art projects for the New Deal, he began to expand his range of subjects, taking on aspects of abstraction as well as Mexican muralism.

Award: Best Trade Magazine adv., 1953. Member: Mural Artists Gld., Soc. Indep. Artists; Lead & Ink" (hon.), Nat.

His major works include paintings, murals, sketches, and other art objects, many of which are on display in the Vienna Secession gallery.

Klimt is noted fo his paintigns, murals, sketches, and other projets d'art. Klimt's primary subject was the female body, and his works are marked by a frank eroticism and marked the ...

A respected figure of the Lyon School, he regularly exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français and became known for his richly detailed landscapes, animal studies, and mural commis...

He created a full size wall mural for the Cleveland Public Library entitled "Dominance of the City."

Denis created paintings with simple forms, gently curved lines, and pale colors. His works include murals, panel paintings, and prints, as well as book illustrations.

The style of the ears can be seen in the court maidens’ murals from the Ming Dynasty at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.

Jonas was a skilled painter of murals and works by him adorned a number of public buildings in Paris and elsewhere.

Behind the cartouche is a mural of curled leaves, alternating white leaves on green ground with yellow on navy, all set between two bands of palmettes with berries.

If you display it as a mural, it will create a Japanese atmosphere in the space.

The painting was made by Eugene Savage, and this commission was the first of several over the years that made him America's leading Art Deco muralist. The Elks murals have incredible...

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