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MAJOR MURAL CONTRACTS

2004 | 2002-2003 | 2001-2002 | 1999-2002 | 1997-1998 | 1996-1997

2004

Sherman Park Field House
18 WPA murals, The New World Series, various artists

Gorton Community Center
4 1936 painted-over WPA Murals, "Air", "Water", "Fire" and "Earth", by Ralph Henrikson

 

2002-2003


Elmhurst Post Office
1937 WPA Mural, "There was a Vision", by George M. Smith
1938 WPA Mural, "On the Soil is our Worth", by Raymond Breinin

Wilmette Post Office
Dining Room Mural

The Palm Tavern, Chicago, Illinois
2 WPA Murals

Alfred Kohn Elementary School, Chicago, Illinois
Charles Turzak 1937 "Mural Maps"

The United States Main Post Office, Chicago, Illinois
da Noyes 1916 Jessie Arms Bottke Murals. North and South Walls

The Windsor Home, Winnetka, Illinois
Dining Room Murals

 

2002-2003 Chicago Board of Education


Fort Dearborn Elementary School
13 WPA Elizabeth Ford murals

Joyce Kilmer Elementary School
4 murals

Wolfgang A. Mozart Elementary School
2 Greek Scenes, 1 WPA Charles Freeman mural

Parkside Community Academy Elememtary School
4 Early American Scenes

Mount Vernon Elementary School
2 Elizabeth Ford murals

Roswell B. Mason Upper Grade Center
8 WPA Grace Sponberg murals

Horace Mann Elementary School
3 WPA Ralph Hendricksen murals

Louis Pasteur Elementary School
8 Lucille Ward murals

Lyman Trumbull Elementary School
2 lunette murals

West Pullman Elementary School
3 Ralph Hendricksen murals

Chicago Vocational High School
14 WPA wood inlay murals

Lake View High School
2 WPA Gregory Orloff painted-over murals

Christopher Columbus Elementary School
3 WPA painted-over murals by Florian Durzynski

Hirsh High School
4 WPA painted-over murals by Andrene Kauffman

Chicago Public Schools / Gallery 37
64 8' x 8' panels by Keith Haring

 

2001-2002


Chicago Public Library
Legler Regional Library. Richard Babcock mural

Oak Park School District, Oak Park, Illinois
2 Ethel Spears, two Karl Kelpe WPA murals

Wabash YMCA, Chicago, Illinos
1 William Scott mural

Fine Arts Building, Chicago, Illinois
8 murals by eight artists

Illinois Supreme Court Law Library, Springfield, Illinois
4 murals

Roosevelt University, Chicago, Illinois
10 Albert Fleury murals

Central Mutual Insurance Co., Van Wert, Ohio
Woodblock wall murals

University of Michigan Graduate Law Library, Ann Arbor
12 Hallway and Corridor murals

State of Arkansas Capitol Building, Little Rock, Arkansas
Ceiling lunette mural

Chicago Park District, Chicago, Illinois
3 Field House murals

 

1999-2002 Public Building Commission


Albert G. Lane Technical High School
4 Siporin murals, 7 WPA Britton frescoes, 40 Century of Progess murals, 2 WPA Jefferson League murals

Henry R. Clissold Elementary School
5 WPA Jefferson League murals

Frank I. Bennett Elementary School
3 WPA Gustaf Dahlstrom murals, 4 WPA Grace Sponberg murals

Lincoln Park High School
1 Frank Stahr mural

Daniel Wentworth Elementary School
2 1904 Norman Hall murals

Amelia Hookway Transitional High School
5 WPA Hendricksen murals, 7 WPA "History of Chicago" murals

John Harvard Elementary School
3 WPA Florian Durzynski murals

Carl Von Linne Elementary School
1 WPA Ethel Spears mural

Newton Bateman Elementary School
1 WPA Florian Durzynski mural, 1 WPA Roberta Elvis mural

Luther Burbank Elementary School
2 WPA Andrene Kauffman murals

Walter S. Christopher Elementary School
3 WPA Arthur Lidov murals

Hugh Manley High School
3 WPA Gustaf Dahlstrom painted-over murals

Donal L Morrill Elenentary School
2 WPA Lucille Ward murals

Maria Saucedo Academy
2 Gustave Brand murals

Harold Washington Elementary School
4 WPA Mary Hauge murals

Wendell Phillips High School
4 1906 murals by four artists

Julia Ward Howe Elementary School
1 WPA Florian Durzynski mural

Joseph E. Gary Elementary School
1 WPA Roberta Elvis mural

 

1997-1998 Chicago Board of Education


George B. Armstrong Elementary School
1 Marion Mahoney Griffin and 2 Frank Peyraud murals

Frederic Chopin Elementary School
2 WPA Florian Durzynski murals

Joseph E. Gary Elementary School
3 1915 Philip Ayer Sawyer murals

Helen Peirce Elementary School
11 WPA John Warner Norton paintings

John M. Smyth Elementary School
6 1910 murals by six artists

Edward Tilden Technical High School
60 1931 James McBurney murals

George W. Tilton Elementary School
3 1910/1911 murals by Janet Laura Scott

Carl Von Linne Elementary School
1 1910 Datus Myers mural

Daniel Wentworth Elementary School
29 1927 murals by James McBurney

William H. Wells High School
3 1937 murals by Henry Simon

 

1996-1997 Chicago Board of Education


Lucy Flower Vocational High School
9 WPA painted-over murals by Edward Millman

Albert G. Lane Technical High School
7 WPA murals by Henry George Brandt

Carl Schurz High School
25 WPA murals by Gustav Brandt

Sidney Sawyer Elementary School
5 WPA murals by Lucille Ward

Louis Nettelhorst Elementary School
1 WPA mural by Rudolph Weisenborn--1 WPA mural by E. Spears

Martin A. Ryerson Elementary School
2 WPA murals by Irene Bianucci

Wolfgang A. Mozart Elementary School
2 WPA murals by E. Gibson--2 WPA murals by Charles Freeman

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