Library of Congress 10 1st Street, S.E Northwest Pavilion, ceiling Washington District of Columbia 20540
Notes:
Brochure of the Mural Painters, a National Society Founded 1895, New York: the Kalkhoff Company, 1916.
Kimbrough, Leftwich D., 1989.
Small, Herbert, "The Library of Congress: its architecture and decoration," New York: Norton, 1982, pg. 151-152.
Fink, Lois Marie, "American Art at the Nineteenth-Century Paris Salons," Washington, DC: National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1990, pg. 177.
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Small, Herbert, "The Library of Congress: its architecture and decoration," New York: Norton, 1982, pg. 149.
Kimbrough, Sara Dodge, "Drawn from Life," Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 1976.
Fink, Lois Marie, "American Art at the Nineteenth-Century Paris Salons," Washington, DC: National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1990, fig. 71.
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Summary:
Ceiling panel depicting a group of figures at the summit of a mountain reaching toward the sky for the Unattainable Ideal, represented by a figure riding a white horse and holding a palm branch aloft. Fame holds the horse's bridle and sounds her trumpet to the figures on the mountain top.
