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Charles Trumbo Henry
Charles Trumbo Henry (1902–1964) was an American artist. His mural ''Northern Georgia'' (1939), an oil on canvas, was painted for the United States Post Office in Cornelia, Georgia, in a Section of Painting and Sculpture, Treasury Department art program. He was born in Niagara Falls, New York. His works are held in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Carnegie Museum of Art, Corcoran Gallery in Washington D.C., Metropolitan Museum of Art, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and Whitney Museum of American Art. Works *Landscape mural study for the Cornelia Post Office (1938), tempera on paperboard held by the Smithsonian American Art Museum after a transfer from the Internal Revenue Service through the General Services Administration *''Aspects of the American Industrial Scene'', a mural study for U.S. Department of Labor (1937) tempera on paperboard. At the Smithsonian American Art Museum after transfer from the General Services Administration *''Coal Yard and Rive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Landscape (mural Study, Cornelia, Georgia Post Office) SAAM-1962
A landscape is the visible features of an area of land, its landforms, and how they integrate with natural or man-made features, often considered in terms of their aesthetic appeal.''New Oxford American Dictionary''. A landscape includes the physical elements of geophysically defined landforms such as (ice-capped) mountains, hills, water bodies such as rivers, lakes, ponds and the sea, living elements of land cover including indigenous vegetation, human elements including different forms of land use, buildings, and structures, and transitory elements such as lighting and weather conditions. Combining both their physical origins and the cultural overlay of human presence, often created over millennia, landscapes reflect a living synthesis of people and place that is vital to local and national identity. The character of a landscape helps define the self-image of the people who inhabit it and a sense of place that differentiates one region from other regions. It is the dynam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
