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[[File:Mural 2007 from door.jpg|350px|right|View from main door, 2007]] | [[File:Mural 2007 from door.jpg|350px|right|View from main door, 2007]] | ||
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Visitors entering the lobby of the [[L. W. Rogers Building]] at the headquarters of the [[Theosophical Society in America]] are surrounded by a mural painted on all four sides of the lobby | Visitors entering the lobby of the [[L. W. Rogers Building]] at the headquarters of the [[Theosophical Society in America]] are surrounded by a mural painted on all four sides of the lobby. The work was painted in 1931 by Philadelphia artist [[Richard Blossom Farley]]. At the summer convention in 1930, members authorized the mural project that was proposed by arts patron [[Georgine Shillard-Smith|Georgine Wetherill Smith]]. Mr. Farley visited the headquarters and measured the space. He returned to his studio in Philadelphia where panels were painted, and then he spent several weeks in the Rogers Building while he applied the canvas panels to the walls. | ||
Mrs. Wetherill Smith wrote of the mural as "Life Aspiring Through the Ages": | |||
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<ref>Georgine Wetherill Smith, "Life Aspiring through the Ages," World Theosophy 1:9 (September, 1931), 707-708.</ref> | Mr. Farley's ambition is to bring into one focus an impartial suggestion of all life, the past and the avenues that lead to the future, the mysteries that drive the onward multifold manifestations, from the atoms to the suns, the oneness of the endless flowers that bloom and fade on the tree of life, and he believes that the graphic can suggest more than words, for into the million melting tones of color can be woven a fabric too complicated and yet too elemental for words.<ref>Georgine Wetherill Smith, "Life Aspiring through the Ages," World Theosophy 1:9 (September, 1931), 707-708.</ref> | ||
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== Photo gallery == | == Photo gallery == | ||
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File:Reception Hall 2 .jpg| | File:Reception Hall 2 .jpg|View from northeast corner before mural, 1928 | ||
File:Reception Hall 1.jpg| | File:Reception Hall 1.jpg|View from southeast corner before mural, 1928 | ||
File:Mural 2007 from balcony.jpg|View from balcony, 2007 | File:Mural 2007 from balcony.jpg|View from balcony, 2007 | ||
File:Mural east wall.jpg|Detail of east wall, 2007 | File:Mural east wall.jpg|Detail of east wall, 2007 | ||
Revision as of 05:03, 25 January 2014
Visitors entering the lobby of the L. W. Rogers Building at the headquarters of the Theosophical Society in America are surrounded by a mural painted on all four sides of the lobby. The work was painted in 1931 by Philadelphia artist Richard Blossom Farley. At the summer convention in 1930, members authorized the mural project that was proposed by arts patron Georgine Wetherill Smith. Mr. Farley visited the headquarters and measured the space. He returned to his studio in Philadelphia where panels were painted, and then he spent several weeks in the Rogers Building while he applied the canvas panels to the walls.
Mrs. Wetherill Smith wrote of the mural as "Life Aspiring Through the Ages":
Mr. Farley's ambition is to bring into one focus an impartial suggestion of all life, the past and the avenues that lead to the future, the mysteries that drive the onward multifold manifestations, from the atoms to the suns, the oneness of the endless flowers that bloom and fade on the tree of life, and he believes that the graphic can suggest more than words, for into the million melting tones of color can be woven a fabric too complicated and yet too elemental for words.[1]
Photo gallery
View from northeast corner before mural, 1928
View from southeast corner before mural, 1928
View from balcony, 2007
Detail of east wall, 2007
Detail of northwest corner, 2007
Starburst on west wall, 2007
Heralds at southwest corner, 2007
Notes
- ↑ Georgine Wetherill Smith, "Life Aspiring through the Ages," World Theosophy 1:9 (September, 1931), 707-708.