![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
||||||||
May - June, 2010 |
||||||||||
HOME | ABOUT | NEWSLETTER | ARCHIVES | CONTACT |
||||||||||
CONSERVATION |
|
![]() |
![]() |
|||||||
|
PARMA Conservation The Story of a Post Office Mural May 25, 2010 WAPAKONETA, OH – Like stepping into the past, the visual impact of downtown Wapakoneta evokes nostalgia like an Edward Hopper painting. The streets are bustling with historic architecture, proud designs from the 1840’s through the 1930’s. Sixty-Five of these buildings are in the National Register of Historic Places, comprising the Wapakoneta Commercial Historic District. (Barber, 93) ![]() One of these historic buildings, the Wapakoneta post office (1938) received a nice surprise in May. Conservators from Parma Conservation traveled there to clean and conserve a treasured New Deal mural in the post office lobby. The piece, an oil triptych on masonite, depicts the story of Wapakoneta in “American Scene”, an artistic style made famous by artists such as Grant Wood and Thomas Hart Benton. ![]() Read more... |
|||||||||
ART
HANDLING |
||||||||||
DESIGN
|
||||||||||
![]() |
||||||||||
![]() |
||||||||||
![]() |
||||||||||
© 2010 Conservation &
Design International. All rights reserved |
||||||||||