Painting the Ceiling of the Children's Room

ID: 85-7821

Creator: Unknown

Form/Genre: Photographic print

Date: c. 1900

Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 371 Box 4

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Summary

Grace Lincoln Temple watches from the scaffolding the painting of the ceiling of the Children's Room in the South Tower of the Smithsonian Institution Building. The original painting was part of a whole design concept initiated by Secretary Samuel P. Langley in 1899, when he was making the room into a children's museum. Temple was responsible for the artistic design in the room which included an illusionistic trellis, about which twined naturalistic grapevines and leaves with birds perched on the trellis against a blue sky.

Subject

  • Smithsonian Institution Building (Washington, D.C.)
  • Smithsonian Institution Building Children's Room
  • Smithsonian Institution Building South Towers

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes

Featured in TORCH, November 1985. Also found in Field, Stamm and Ewing, p. 128

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 371 Box 4

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

c. 1900

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

  • Women
  • Temple, Grace Lincoln
  • Mural painting and decoration
  • History
  • Children's museums
  • Women--History

Form/Genre

  • Photographic print
  • Interior

ID Number

85-7821

Physical description

Color: Black and White; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Interior; Medium: Photographic print

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