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John White Alexander's Industrial Lunettes for the Pennsylvania State Capitol: The Unfinished Story (2008)

Mary Anne Goley (Author)

IA. The Journal of the Society for Industrial Archeology
Volume: 34
Issue: 1/2
Pages: 41-57

URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/41473705

Publication Date: 2008
Edition Details: THEME ISSUE: IA IN ART
Language: English

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Pennsylvania State Capitol Public Buildings Murals Allegory Technology and art Industrial archaeology 20th century Pennsylvania (U.S.) John White Alexander

A story appeared in the monthly Appleton 's Booklovers Magazine in 1906 applauding John White Alexander's (1856-1915) mural design for the new Pennsylvania State Capitol in Harrisburg. It described, "a scheme strangely poetic and suggestive as well as startlingly original for such a purpose, and one which entirely justifies the painter's courage in hazarding a departure from the accepted conventions of decorative art."' The article by Hamilton Bell followed a year after a news story in a Pittsburgh paper gave a coherent and comprehensive description of the decoration, on the theme of change in the physical aspect of the state in the course of its industrial and mechanical development. Alexander's unconventionality was in choosing the genre of landscape to decorate a new statehouse designed as the American embodiment of an Italian Renaissance basilica. [First paragraph]

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Article Betsy Fahlman (2008) Industrial Archeology and Art: Negotiating the Past and Present. IA. The Journal of the Society for Industrial Archeology (pp. 5-8). unapi

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