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Untitled (Urban Wall)
''Untitled (Urban Wall)'' is an outdoor mural by Austrian artist Roland Hobart located at 32 North Delaware Street in downtown Indianapolis, Indiana. The mural originally occupied two exterior walls of two four-story commercial buildings at this site. The mural was commissioned by the City of Indianapolis for the Indianapolis Urban Walls Project in 1973.Lennis, Susan. “Hey brother, can you spare a wall?”, “Indianapolis Star Magazine”, Indianapolis, 23 May 1976. Fabrication of the mural began in September 1973 and finished by the end of the year. Description When the mural was completed, Marion Simon Garmel described ''Untitled (Urban Wall)'' as “a complex puzzle of rectangles, pie-shaped wedges, quarter arcs and S curves in bold but earthy colors”. "Urban Wall" in ''Untitled'' refers to the Indianapolis Urban Walls Project, a region wide call to artists by the Indianapolis Department of Parks and Recreation to develop outdoor mural designs toward the beautification ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roland Hobart
Roland Hobart (25 December 1940 – 29 October 2020) was an Austrians, Austrian artist who arrived in the United States in 1966 to participate in the L. S. Ayres "Import Fair" and later became a leading mural artist in Downtown Indianapolis, a well-known screen printing artist, and educator. Biography Early life and education Roland O. Hobart was a native of Innsbruck, where he studied mural painting at an early age. He then toured for a year in Europe working at different galleries before enrolling in the Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien and opening a printing business. Shelbyville Hobart moved to Shelbyville, Indiana, in 1966 from Austria and lived on the property of Richard and Thelma ('Tee') Fleming, who helped arrange for him to stay and sponsored his art production. In Shelbyville, Hobart set up a studio just off one of the city's main streets in 1972 where he printed his own arts and also reproduced arts for many artists nationwide until the 1980s. He was well known i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |