Author Archives: Stephan Giannini

Tribute to Adrian Booth / Lorna Gray installed in Grand Rapids for Art-Prize Event

I have painted a  tribute image of actress Adrian Booth as part of the Artprize event. Mrs. Adrian Booth Brian was born Virginia Pound in Grand Rapids  in 1917.  The image, an approximately 16 ft. high painting on wood panels was mounted outside “the B.O.B.” nightclub on Fuller at Monroe. It is visible from theContinueContinue reading “Tribute to Adrian Booth / Lorna Gray installed in Grand Rapids for Art-Prize Event”

Westown Mural Commision

Recently I was informed that I have been awarded a  commission to do a mural  in the Westown neighborhood of Chicago. They were looking for street scenes from their area to be painted underneath a Union-Pacific train bridge  just west Chicago and Halstead. My theme is a “Utopian vision of an alternative future” where theContinueContinue reading “Westown Mural Commision”

Even More Washington,D.C. Mural Conservation

As my friends know I have been spending a lot of time in the last two years working in Washington, DC on  some mural conservations working with an Conservator/artist team  to conserve some  circa 1880’s decorative murals in an executive branch office building near the White House. With Page Conservation. About the 1940’s the decorationsContinueContinue reading “Even More Washington,D.C. Mural Conservation”

Art Prize. Wow! Grand Rapids is strutting out!

ArtPrize,  created by Rick DeVos, a grandson of both the cofounder of Amway and the founder of the Prince Corp is apparently establishing a kind of huge scale people’s choice competition in Grand Rapds, MI. A  few years ago I helped paint a Richard Haas designed Mural there and am thinking about creating another publicContinueContinue reading “Art Prize. Wow! Grand Rapids is strutting out!”

More Washington, DC murals

Here is another apparently old mural on 14th street near “U”.  I can’t quite make out what it is supposed to say , perhaps “mothers love”? Maybe it is an old sign.  It is peeling quite badly. Also about 50 ft. away I found a beautiful poster  applied to a door. Any information about eitherContinueContinue reading “More Washington, DC murals”

Marilyn Monroe Mural, Washington D.C.

This wonderful and popular mural is at the corner of Calvert and Connecticut, near the Woodley Park Metro station. Commissioned in 1981 by Roi Barnard of Salon Roi, and painted by John Bailey. There is or was a bronze plaque installed at 2604 Connecticut Avenue naming the artist, but I did not see it. ItContinueContinue reading “Marilyn Monroe Mural, Washington D.C.”