Word: mural
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first made Stevenson, Cooper, Malory's Morte d'Arthur-not to mention his own Robin Hood, Otto of the Silver Hand, etc.-alive in many a boy's heart; but he was also a great and serious artist on canvas and in mural decoration. Pyle was born in Wilmington, Del., in 1853, and lived there until his death in 1911. He knew the satisfaction of being an honored prophet in his own community. To his home flocked students, for he was an inspired teacher who taught for love of it, and many of our best American illustrators...
...Gallery, where it has collected 267 works of Pyle in various media. One room is devoted to oil paintings, another to black and whites and sketches, a third is an exact replica of the living room in the artist's Wilmington residence. This room was notable for eight mural paintings, ceiling decorations, and a fireplace, by Pyle himself. These pictures, dealing in subject with the genesis of Art and Literature, had been damaged during a fire at the Pyle house, but have been completely restored and with difficulty transferred bodily to the gallery. In the oil painting room...
Medieval paintings in Westminster Abbey have recently been cleaned and restored, revealing hitherto undiscovered work of great beauty-particularly in the Chapter House, an octagonal structure with arched spaces filled with mural decorations. The central theme is Christ coming to the Doom, or Last Judgment. Four of the spaces are occupied by subjects from the Apocalypse, while two show groups of persons gazing toward Christ the Judge. In the Apocalypse spaces there is a bottom band on which animals are painted in pairs facing a tree on a red background. Only three pairs remain: " Reynder and Ro; Wild...
Monet still hopes to paint again, and to complete the great mural design of water lilies, to be hung in the orangerie of the Tuileries, upon which he was working when blindness fell upon...
...Bradford devotes his energies to portraiture and mural decorations. But he never does landscape. He says he enjoys the scenes of nature too much to drag them into his workshop...