The Murals Of The Central Library
In the late 1920s, the Birmingham Library
Board commissioned Ezra Winter to paint a mural series for the main
reading room in the newly constructed library building. In addition, he
was also asked to paint a mural depicting famous fairy tales for the
children's room. The murals for both areas were executed in oils on canvas
in Winter's New York studio. There were later affixed to the walls of the
library with white lead, and Winter himself was present to supervise this
installation.
The Artist
Ezra Winter
The Murals
American: John Smith and Pocahontas
Arabian: Shahryar and Shahrazad
Chinese: Confucius
Egyptian: Isis and Ramses II
English: Lancelot
French: Celimene and Alceste
German: Faust and Margaret
Greek: Bellerophon and Pegasus
Hebrew: David
Hindu: Krishna and Radha
Italian: Dante and Virgil
Japanese: Otohime and Ura-Shima
Ta-ro
Persian: Sadi
Russian: Igor
Scandinavian: Sigurd and Brynhild
Spanish: Don Quixote
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