Ann Rice O'Hanlon Fresco
Ann Rice O'Hanlon's Fresco Mural (Detail) in Memorial Hall, Univ. of KY
Description
Ann Rice O’Hanlon’s was commissioned in 1934 through the Treasury Relief Art Project to create a fresco featured in Memorial Hall on the University of Kentucky’s Lexington campus.
“The large fresco in the lobby of Memorial Hall depicts scenes from early Lexington and central Kentucky and images of cultural development. It was completed in 1934 by Ann Rice O’Hanlon, a University of Kentucky graduate…”
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Ann Rice O’Hanlon’s Fresco Mural (Detail) in Memorial Hall, Univ. of KY
Ann Rice O'Hanlon Fresco
Ann Rice O'Hanlon's Fresco Mural (Detail) in Memorial Hall, Univ. of KY
Source notes
O'Hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley, CA University of Kentucky, Lexington https://ukcc.uky.edu/cgi-bin/dynamo?maps.391+campus+0049
Project originally submitted by Megan Wilkinson on September 30, 2014.
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The future of this mural is threatened as of November 2015. The school has covered it and is trying to learn whether it is possible to remove a fresco “for relocation”. Personally, I suspect this is the end of this particular work of art and piece of history. Its future will be in a handful of jpegs, a memory and, in time, not even that.