Walls Speak: The Narrative Art of Hildreth Meière is an exhibition on view at the National Building Museum. This video series presents the exhibition's curator, Catherine Coleman Brawer, discussing the work of Art Deco muralist and mosaicist Hildreth Meière (1892–1961). Special thanks to Hildreth Meière Dunn for providing in situ photographs of art work. Visit the National Building museum online for more podcasts and video.
Hildreth Meière's glass mosaic designs for the Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis are some of the most stunning reinterpretations of early-Christian icon...
Hildreth Meière's mosaic for the Travelers Insurance Company illustrates traveling in nineteenth-century America, when travel was high risk.Walls Spea...
Hildreth Meière's metal sculpture on the exterior of the Medicine and Public Health Building depicts Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine, and the Drag...
For Radio City Music Hall, Hildreth Meière designed the exterior, mixed-metal and enamel sculptures Dance, Drama, and Song.Walls Speak: The Narrative ...
For the apse at St. Bartholomew's Church in New York City, Hildreth Meières employed Byzantine-style glass mosaics for the first time. Walls Speak: Th...
The dome for the Great Hall of the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C., was Hildreth Meière's first major architectural commission. Walls...
Muralist Hildreth Meière's designs for the Nebraska State Capitol relate the history of Nebraska to the ideals of Western civilization. Walls Speak: T...
Walls Speak: The Narrative Art of Hildreth Meière is an exhibition on view at the National Building Museum from March 19 - November 27, 2011. Curator ...