• The Murals of York, Pennsylvania are a series of murals painted on the sides of buildings in York, Pennsylvania between 1996 and 2002. Paid for with local...
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  • featured in one of the murals of York, Pennsylvania. Today, the corporate office of York Barbell Company houses the official Weightlifting Hall of Fame and Museum...
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    York is a city in, and the county seat of, York County, Pennsylvania, United States. Located in South Central Pennsylvania, the city's population was 44...
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    University of Central Arkansas. "Arkansas Post Office Murals". David Lembeck. "Rediscovering the People's Art: New Deal Murals in Pennsylvania’s Post Offices"...
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  • Mural Arts Philadelphia is a non-profit organization that supports the creation of public murals in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1986 as the...
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  • significance to the State of Victoria. In 1978, Keith Haring moved to New York from Kutztown, Pennsylvania to attend the School of Visual Arts. In the early...
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    Pennsylvania Station (often abbreviated to Penn Station) was a historic railroad station in New York City that was built for, named after, and originally...
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    convicted of graft for price gouging. The Pennsylvania State Capitol is often referred to as a "palace of art" because of its many sculptures, murals, and...
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    Pennsylvania was a hotel at 401 Seventh Avenue (15 Penn Plaza) in Manhattan, across from Pennsylvania Station and Madison Square Garden in New York City...
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    paintings and murals that depicted "optimistic visions of America during a time of economic desperation." However, many artists disliked the idea of creating...
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    heritage. Murals: a colorful panorama of Pennsylvania history appear in murals by Edwin Austin Abbey. The most commanding of the series hangs behind the Speaker's...
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    home to thousands of murals, earning it the nickname "the mural capital of the world" or "the mural capital of America." The city's mural culture began and...
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    Violet Oakley (category Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts alumni)
    (1644–1718), founder of the colonial-era Province of Pennsylvania, whose ideals she represented in her murals at the Pennsylvania State Capitol in Harrisburg...
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    Edwin Austin Abbey (category Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts alumni)
    allegorical medallion murals representing Science, Art, Justice, and Religion for the dome of the Rotunda, four large lunette murals beneath the dome, and...
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  • We the Youth (Keith Haring) (category Murals in Pennsylvania)
    September 1987. It is the only of Haring's collaborative public murals to remain in its original location. The mural was intended as a temporary placeholder...
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  • Maksimilijan Vanka (category People from the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia)
    best known for the series of murals he completed in 1937 and 1941 at St. Nicholas Croatian Church in Millvale, Pennsylvania. Vanka was born in Zagreb...
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    known is that the murals were painted over rural scenes containing small figures, as Goya made use of the landscapes in some of his murals such as Fight with...
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    Keith Haring (category LGBT people from Pennsylvania)
    created colorful larger scale murals, many commissioned. He produced more than 50 public artworks between 1982 and 1989, many of them created voluntarily for...
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    state of Pennsylvania and the sixth-most populous city in the nation, with a population of 1,603,797 in the 2020 census. The city is the urban core of the...
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    States Department of the Treasury. Some 1,400 murals were created for federal post office buildings in more than 1,300 U.S. cities. Murals still extant are...
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    Frank Rizzo (category 20th-century Pennsylvania politicians)
    Cemetery in Cheltenham Township, Pennsylvania. In his hometown neighborhood of South Philadelphia, a mural portrait of Rizzo was located at the Italian...
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    Tunkhannock is a borough and county seat of Wyoming County, Pennsylvania, 31 miles (50 km) northwest of Wilkes-Barre. In the past, lumbering was carried...
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    Edgar J. Kaufmann (category People from Fox Chapel, Pennsylvania)
    Boardman Robinson to create a series of nine murals for his flagship department store in Pittsburgh on the history of trade, completed with automobile paint...
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    Freedom Tunnel (category Culture of New York City)
    Side Line under Riverside Park in Manhattan, New York City. Used by Amtrak trains to and from Pennsylvania Station, it got its name because the graffiti...
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    El Raval neighbourhood of Barcelona. Raised in Kutztown, Pennsylvania, Haring moved to New York City to attend the School of Visual Arts in 1978. By...
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    in Blair County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 43,963 at the time of the 2020 census. It is the principal city of the Altoona metropolitan...
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  • Dean Cornwell (category Art Students League of New York faculty)
    Carolina and Morganton, North Carolina, with other murals in the Warwick New York Hotel in New York City, the New England Telephone headquarters building...
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    borough in and the county seat of Wayne County, Pennsylvania, United States. The borough's population was 4,458 at the time of the 2020 census. Honesdale...
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    Aaron Douglas (artist) (category Painters from New York City)
    Symbolic Negro History, murals at Fisk University, 1930 Dance Magic, murals for the Sherman Hotel, Chicago, 1930–31 Series of illustrations and later...
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    his murals, primarily in or around Philadelphia's South Street. Zagar received his Bachelor of Arts from the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York City...
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