The Missouri Murals : Studies for the State Capitol Decorations
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"Mention the Missouri State Capitol and mural painting, and most people think of Thomas Hart Benton's famous work The Social History of Missouri, which he painted for the lounge of the House of Representatives from 1934 to 1936. Yet this important mural cycle is not part of the original work at the capitol. Predating his paintings is an extensive set of decorations carried out from 1919 to 1927 by dozens of artists in many different media, including seventy-eight murals by twenty-five painters. The Missouri capitol was one of the last buildings to be extensively decorated in the tradition of the American Renaissance, and the amount of art work added to the new building was rivaled by few other structures in America. The purpose of this article is to take a closer look at the original murals by means of the impressive collection of artists' studies that survive and are a part of the holdings of the Museum of Art and Archaeology and the Special Collections Department of Ellis Library, both at the University of Missouri-Columbia."--From introduction.
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