Enduring and Impermanent:
A History of Mural Painting
Presented by Morgan Ridler, PhD.

Tuesday, Dec.15 at 7pm via Zoom
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Sponsored by The Warner Library and the Village of Sleepy Hollow

The Village of Sleepy Hollow’s new mural project the Wishing Wall along the Hudson River waterfront was developed as a temporary community mural. Its removal loomed on the horizon from its very inception. While the project is temporary, its aspirational conceptual framework as a wishing wall is eternal and long lasting.  In this lecture, art historian Morgan Ridler, PhD, traces the history of mural painting from the earliest examples by our prehistoric ancestors through the contemporary period, with a particular focus on temporary or destroyed murals of the twentieth century. Murals are never forever but their ideas can live on.