Band Concert (mural study, Corning, Iowa Post Office)

Marion Gilmore, Band Concert (mural study, Corning, Iowa Post Office), 1939, tempera on fiberboard mounted on fiberboard, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the General Services Administration, 1974.28.344
Copied Marion Gilmore, Band Concert (mural study, Corning, Iowa Post Office), 1939, tempera on fiberboard mounted on fiberboard, image: 15 x 36 in. (38.1 x 91.4 cm) mount: 26 x 43 3⁄4 in. (66 x 111.1 cm) sheet: 15 x 36 in. (38.1 x 91.4 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the General Services Administration, 1974.28.344

Artwork Details

Title
Band Concert (mural study, Corning, Iowa Post Office)
Artist
Date
1939
Location
Dimensions
image: 15 x 36 in. (38.1 x 91.4 cm) mount: 26 x 43 3⁄4 in. (66 x 111.1 cm) sheet: 15 x 36 in. (38.1 x 91.4 cm)
Credit Line
Transfer from the General Services Administration
Mediums
Mediums Description
tempera on fiberboard mounted on fiberboard
Classifications
Subjects
  • Figure group
  • Recreation — leisure — strolling
  • Study — mural study
  • Performing arts — music — band
  • Architecture — other — gazebo
  • Landscape — Iowa — Corning
Object Number
1974.28.344
Linked Open Data
https://edan.si.edu/saam/id/object/1974.28.344

Artwork Description

Band Concert was the winning entry in a competition for a mural at the post office in Corning, Iowa. Although Marion Gilmore changed the look of the bandstand and park, a Corning resident wrote that the mural "artistically and yet so truthfully depicts the happy, community 'way of life' in the finest little town in the most livable section of the most prosperous state of the most democratic country in the whole topsy turvy world, in this problematical year of 1941."