"First Flight of the Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk"
Description
“First Flight of the Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk”
Medium: oil on canvas, 1940
Phillip Von Saltza, painter
Von Saltza’s painting was selected from a pool of 1,475 entrants. The painting, in the post office in this eastern North Carolina town, commemorates the Wright brothers’ first experiment with flight, which happened just around 100 miles away in Kitty Hawk.
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"First Flight of the Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk"
Source notes
https://www.go-trippin.com/business/post-office-mural-wright-brothers-flight Originally posted in the New Deal Art Registry: https://www.newdealartregistry.org/
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