Object Details
Artist
Marion Gilmore, born Ottumwa, IA 1909-died Ottumwa, IA 1984
Gallery Label
Band Concert was the winning entry in a competition for a mural at the post office in Corning, Iowa. Although Marion Gilmore changed the look of the bandstand and park, a Corning resident wrote that the mural "artistically and yet so truthfully depicts the happy, community 'way of life' in the finest little town in the most livable section of the most prosperous state of the most democratic country in the whole topsy turvy world, in this problematical year of 1941."
Credit Line
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the General Services Administration
Date
1939
Object number
1974.28.344
Restrictions & Rights
Usage conditions apply
Type
Painting
Medium
tempera on fiberboard mounted on fiberboard
Dimensions
image: 15 x 36 in. (38.1 x 91.4 cm) mount: 26 x 43 3/4 in. (66 x 111.1 cm) sheet: 15 x 36 in. (38.1 x 91.4 cm)
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Department
Painting and Sculpture
On View
Smithsonian American Art Museum, 1st Floor, South Wing
Data Source
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Topic
Figure group
Recreation\leisure\strolling
Study\mural study
Performing arts\music\band
Architecture\other\gazebo
Landscape\Iowa\Corning
Link to Original Record
Record ID
saam_1974.28.344