DC's National Building Museum Celebrates Hildreth Meière's Art Deco murals and mosaics
EXAMINER - DC
March 23, 2011
WASHINGTON DC - Think Art Deco, what doesn’t come to mind is who created its major murals -- and much of America’s greatest Art Deco murals, mosaics, and decorative arts -- Hildreth Meière. Washington’s National Building Museum is correcting this with a just-opened, much-deserved tribute, “Walls Speak: The Narrative Art of Hildreth Meière”, the first major retrospective of the award-winning artist’s spectacular work. Her 100-plus commissions included designs for:
March 23, 2011
WASHINGTON DC - Think Art Deco, what doesn’t come to mind is who created its major murals -- and much of America’s greatest Art Deco murals, mosaics, and decorative arts -- Hildreth Meière. Washington’s National Building Museum is correcting this with a just-opened, much-deserved tribute, “Walls Speak: The Narrative Art of Hildreth Meière”, the first major retrospective of the award-winning artist’s spectacular work. Her 100-plus commissions included designs for:
- :New York City: St. Bartholomew’s Church, its magnificent Magnificat stained glass window, among its other stained glass and mosaics; and Temple Emanu-El, eight-story high mosaics over the main sanctuary’s ark.
- Washington, DC: National Cathedral‘s mosaic apse in its Resurrection Chapel.
- St. Louis, MO: Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis, which has one of the world’s largest installations of mosaics.
- 70 portable altarpieces for World War II military chaplains – and she supervised creation of more than 500 of these triptychs.
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