The 140 foot by 38 foot mural designed by Omaha artists Leonard Thiessen and William Hammon highlights the building completed in 1957. The mural features more than 763,000 pieces of tile, each cut one inch square and assembled in one foot by two foot sections at the Cambridge Tile Company in Cincinnati, Ohio. It was shipped to Lincoln and installed on the auditorium. Workers assembled the mural based on numbers on the backs of each piece rather than sight of the picture. The mural is in need of some repair. Its fate rests on the future of the building.
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Pershing Auditorium West Wall Mural (Lincoln, NE)
The 140 foot by 38 foot mural designed by Omaha artists Leonard Thiessen and William Hammon highlights the building completed in 1957. The mural features more than 763,000 pieces of tile, each cut one inch square and assembled in one foot by two foot sections at the Cambridge Tile Company in Cincinnati, Ohio. It was shipped to Lincoln and installed on the auditorium. Workers assembled the mural based on numbers on the backs of each piece rather than sight of the picture. The mural is in need of some repair. Its fate rests on the future of the building.
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