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MAJOR MURAL PROJECTS
 
Board of Education of the City of Chicago: 2000, 2001, 2002 (53 murals)
 
Belding Elementary School, Chicago, IL: Mural by Roberta Elvis, o/c, 15’ x 5’4”, 1938 WPA.
Clinton Elementary School, Chicago, IL: Murals by Hans Werner, o/c, (2) 5’ x 15’, 1931 WPA.
Dixon Elementary School, Chicago, IL: Murals by Mary Chambers Hauge, o/c, (2) 9’ x 10’, 1937 WPA.
Falconer Elementary School, Chicago, IL: Mural by Florian Durzynski, o/c, 11’5” x 11’2”, 1940.
Gray Elementary School, Chicago, IL: Mural by W.F. Maden, o/c, 23’6” x 4’, circa 1930’s.
Jahn Elementary School, Chicago, IL: Murals by Harry Gage A.I.C., o/c (4) 120” x 60”, 1910.
Jahn Elementary School, Chicago, IL: Murals by E. Betts, Jr., o/c, (2) 8’4” x 3”8”, circa 1930’s.
Kelly High School, Chicago, IL: (7) Murals, o/c, circa 1950’s, (3) murals by Unknown, WPA.
Kohn High School, Chicago, IL: Murals by unknown, o/c, (2) 28’ x 7’6”, circa 1930’s.
Lafayette School, Chicago, IL: Murals by Robert Grafton, o/c, (2) 4’ x 5’, (2) 9’ x 12’, 1926.
McKay High School, Chicago, IL: Murals by Florian Durzynski, oil on board, (3) 4’ x 8’, 1938 WPA.
O’Toole Elementary, Chicago, IL: Mural by unknown, tempera on canvas, 16’ x 4’, circa 1940.
Parkside School, Chicago, IL: Murals by James McBurney, o/c, (2) 10’ x 6’, (1) 5’ x 3’, (2) 3’ x 3’, 1928.
Penn Elementary School, Chicago, IL: Murals by unknown, o/c, (4) 6’6” x 4’6”, circa 1930’s.
Stewart Elementary, Chicago, IL: Murals by unknown, o/c, (3) 79” x 67”, circa 1930’s.
Stone Academy, Chicago, IL: Murals by unknown, o/c, (2) 91” x 36”, circa 1920’s.
Sumner Elementary, Chicago, IL: Mural by M. Reilly, o/c, 146” x 90”, circa 1930’s.
Talcott Elementary School, Chicago, IL: Mural by Alson S. Clarks, 8’ x 4’, circa 1930’s.
Wadsworth School, Chicago, IL: Murals by unknown, (2) 6’ x 15”, (2) 15’ x 3’, circa 1920’s.
 
 
United States Postal Service: 1998-present
 
Carmi, IL, Service to the Farmer, by Davenport Griffen, o/c, 1939
Carthage IL, Pioneers Tilling the Soil and Building Log Cabin, by Karl Kelpe, o/c, 1938
Chester, IL, Loading the Packet, by Fay E. Davis, tempera on gesso, 1940
Chicago, IL, Lakeview Branch, Epoch of a Great City, by Harry Sternberg, o/c, 1938
Chicago, IL, Old Post Office, Removal of 13 murals in Elevator Lobby, Charles Turzak, o/c, 1940
Chillicothe, IL, Railroading, by Arthur Lidov, tempera on gesso, 1940
Dwight, IL, The Stage at Dawn, by Carlos Lopez, fresco, 1937
Downers Grove, IL, Chicago: Railway Center of the Nation, by Elizabeth Tracy, o/c, 1940
East Alton, IL, The Letter, by Francis Foy, o/c, 1936
Eldorado, IL, Mining in Illinois, by William Schwartz, o/c, 1937
Fairfield, IL, Old Settlers, by William Schwartz, o/c, 1936
Flora, IL, Good News, Bad News, by Davenport Griffen, o/c, 1937
Forest Park, IL, The White Fawn, by Miriam McKinnie, o/c, 1940
Gillespie, IL, Illinois Farm, by Gustav Dahlstrom, o/c, 1936
Hamilton, IL, Threshing Grain, by Edmund D. Lewandowski, o/c, 1942
Marseilles, IL, Industrial Marseilles, by Avery Johnson, o/c, 1938
Marshall, IL, Harvest, by Miriam McKinnie, o/c, 1938
McLeansboro, IL, First Official Air Mail Flight, by Dorothy Mierisch, o/c, 1941
Mt. Sterling, IL, The Covered Bridge, by Henry Bernstein, tempera on gesso, 1941
Nashville, IL, Barn Yard, by Zoltan Sepeshy, tempera, 1942
Pittsfield, IL, River Boat and Bridge, by William Schwartz, o/c, 1938
Shelbyville, IL, Shelby County Fair, by Lucia Wiley, fresco, 1941
Staunton, IL, Going to Work, by Ralph Henricksen, o/c, 1941
Tuscola, IL, The Old Days, Edwin Boyd Johnson, o/c, 1941
Vandalia, IL, Old State Capitol, by Aaron Bohrod, o/c, 1936
Virden, IL, Illinois Pastoral, by James Daugherty, o/c, 1939
 
Alexandria, IN, The Sledding party, by Roland Schweinsburg, o/c, 1938
Attica, IN, Trek of the Covered Wagon to Indiana, by Reva Jackman, o/c, 1938
Cambridge City, IN, Pride of Cambridge City, by Samuel Hershey, o/c, 1941
Dunkirk, IN, Preparations for Dunkirk Autumn Festival, by Frances Foy, o/c, 1941
Franklin, IN, Local Industry, by Jean Swiggett, o/c, 1940
Garret, IN, Clearing the Right of Way, by Joe H. Cox, o/c, 1940
Gas City, Gas City in Boom Days, by William A. Dolwick, o/c, 1939
La Grange, IN, Corn School, by Jessie Hull Mayer. o/c, 1941
Liberty, IN, Autumn Fields, by Avery Johnson, o/c, 1939
Ligonier, IN, Cutting Timber, by Fay E. Davis, o/c, 1940
North Manchester, IN, Indiana Farm—Sunday Afternoon, by Alan Tompkins, o/c, 1938
Middlebury, IN, Early Middlebury Mail, by Raymond Redell, o/c, 1939
Nappanee, IN, Waiting for the Mail, by Grant Christian, o/c, 1938
Pendelton, IN, Loggers, by William F. Kaeser, o/c, 1941
Tipton, IN, Indiana Farming, by Donald Mattison, o/c, 1937
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Gretna, LA, Steamboats on the Mississippi, by Stuart R. Purser, o/c. 1939
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Belding, MI, Belding Brothers and heir Silk Industry, o/c, 1943
Birmingham, MI, The Pioneering Society’s Picnic, tempera, 1942
Buchanan, MI, Production, by Gertrude Goodrich, tempera (painted over), 1941
Crystal Falls, MI, Extending the Frontier in Northwest Territory, by Allan Thomas, o/c, 1938
Fremont, MI, The Pony Express, by Lumen Martin Winter, o/c, 1938
Greenville, MI, Lumbering, by Charles Thwaites, o/c, 1940
Hart, MI, Boy Rounding up the Stock, by Ruth Grotenrath, o/c, 1941
Iron Mountain, MI, Mail Transportation in the West, by Vladimir Rousseff, o/c (5 murals), 1935-1936
Manistique, MI, Logging, by David Fredenthal, o/c, 1941
Marquette, MI, Marquette Exploring Shores of Lake Michigan, by Dewey Albinson, o/c, 1938
 
Canton, MO, Winter Landscape, by Jessie Hull Mayer, o/c, 1940
Eldon, MO, Picnic, Lake of the Ozarks, by Frederic Shane, o/c, 1941
Marceline, MO, Contemporary Life in Missouri, by Joseph Meert, tempera, 1938
Palymyra, MO, Memories of Marion County, by James Penny. o/c, 1942
Paris, MO, The Clemens Family Arrives in Monroe County, by Fred Carpenter, o/c, 1940
Sullivan, MO, Saturday Afternoon on Main Street, by Lawrence Adams, o/c, 1942
Union, MO, Aspects of Rural Missouri, by James Penney, o/c, 1941
Vandalia, MO, Corn Harvest, by Joseph Vorst, o/c, 1938
 
Lincolnton, NC, Threshing Grain, by Richard Jansen, o/c, 1938
Louisburg, NC, Tobacco Auction, by Richard Kenah o/c, 1939
Wilmington, NC, Port of Wilmington, by William Pfohl, o/c, 1940
 
Delhi, NY, Down Rent War, by Mary Early, o/c, 1940
East Rochester, NY, Recreation Hours, by Bernard Gussow, o/c, 1938
Fredonia, NY, harvest scene, by Arnold Blanch, o/c, 1937
Lake George, NY, Lake George, by Judson Smith, o/c, 1942
New York City, NY, Farley Bldg., assessment of fresco by Le Brun, 1935
Oxford, NY, Family Reunion on Rock Island, by Mordi Grassner, tempera, 1941
Pointed Post, NY, Recording the Victory, by Amy Jones, o/c, 1939
Saratoga Springs, NY, Saratoga in Racing Season, by Guy Pene du Bois, o/c (2 murals), 1937
 
Mount Gilead, OH, Pioneering to Progress, by Julius Wyhof, o/c, 1938
New Concord, OH, Skaters, by Clyde Singer, o/c, 1941
 
Anadarko, OK, sixteen panels on Indian life, by Stephan Mopope, tempera, 1937
Claremore, OK, Will Rogers, by Randall Davey, tempera, 1939
Cordell, OK, The Scene Changes, by Ila Turner McAfee, o/c, 1938
Marietta, OK, Chicksaw Indian Family Making Pah Sho Fah, by Solomon McCombs, o/c, date unknown
Poteau, OK, Cotton, by Joan Cunningham, o/c, 1940
Sulphur, OK, Romance of the Mail, by Albert T. Reid, o/c, 1939
 
Columbia, PA, Columbia Bridge, by Bruce Mitchell, o/c, 1938
Somerset, PA, Somerset—Farm Scene, by Alexander J.Kostellow, o/c, 1941
 
LaFollette, TN, On the Shores of the Lake, by Dahlov Ipcar, o/c, 1939
 
Alta Vista, VA, The Growing Community, by Herman Maril, o/c, 1940
Luray, VA, Luray—1840, by Sheffield Kagy, o/c, 1939
 
Oconomowoc, WS, Winter Sports, by Edward Morton, o/c, 1938
Richland Center, WS, Interpretation of America through the Post, by Richard Brooks, o/c, 1937
 
 
FIELD MUSEUM OF CHICAGO: 2004-2005
 
Cleaning, consolidation, repair of (25) “dinosaur murals” by Charles Knight executed in 1935 for the museum. Murals are 25’ x 10’ and 15’ x 10’.
 
 
CHURCHES
 
NOTRE DAME CHURCH DE CHICAGO: 2004
Cleaning, repair of (1) 2500 sq. ft. cupola mural by Joseph Vittur 1903. Murals were damaged by fire, smoke, water, and former restoration.
 
GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH, MADISON, WI: 2002
Cleaning and repair of (1) 2400 sq. ft. of fire and smoke damaged murals.
 
SAINTS PETER AND PAUL CHURCH, NAPERVILLE, IL 2005
Cleaning and repair of (4) 25’ x 8’ murals in transept.
 
ST. MARTIN DE PORRES CHURCH, PEORIA, IL 2005
Cleaning and repair of 4 fire and smoke damages murals in sanctuary.
 
ST. ALPHONSUS CATHOLIC CHURCH, Chicago, IL
Conservation of covered-over murals in the church.
 
ST JOHN THE BAPTIST CHURCH, Winfield, IL
Conservation of 14 stations of the cross


 

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