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American Mural Painting, Fanny E. Perkins May 1912

American Mural Painting, Fanny E. Perkins

Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design Theses & Dissertations

The first two chapters contain an exceedingly condensed statement of the limitations of mural painting and the history of its development in Europe, - a background for the real theme, which commences in the fairs chapter with an outline of the beginnings of mural painting in America. Chapter IV treats the Chicago World's Fair as an epoch-making event in the art, and develops the history from that point to the present day. The existing examples of mural painting in America are then divided into four classes, for convenience of description. Chapter V deals with those paintings having a religious theme, …