Category Archives: New

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”

Working on 18th Century Wallpaper restoration in Washington, D.C.

Here is a  look at what I am doing this week in Washington DC. This is an 18th century  wallpaper made with woodblock prints . It would have been manufactured by a company like Joseph Dufour et Cie. I’m working with Page Conservation who have mounted the wallpaper on panels and I am  very carefullyContinueContinue reading “Working on 18th Century Wallpaper restoration in Washington, D.C.”

Denver Restoration

This month I am in Denver working on a Mural restoration At the Byron White Federal courthouse in downtown Denver. Herman T. Schladermundt was he original Muralist, and he painted the 4 murals  about 1918. Unfortunately a “restoration was done in the 1960’s during which an artist painted garish colors on top of the originalContinueContinue reading “Denver Restoration”