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(44) "Davy Crockett" and Early Settlers--Group from Mural, State Building, Tennessee, ca. 1937
Charcoal.
Art Wood Collection of Cartoon and Caricature
Prints and Photographs Division
LC-DIG-ppmsca-07921 (44)
Courtesy of Kirkham R. Cornwell, Jr.
Dean Cornwell (1892-1960) depicts three frontiersmen--two figures wear tricorn hats and another kneels and aims a rifle. Given the inscription, this would appear to be a study for one of the murals Cornwell executed for a Tennessee state building, but no direct connection exists. Re-worked versions of the three frontiersmen do appear related to figures in a group of buckskin clad men in the Exploration and Settlement panel of the Tennessee statehood murals in the John Sevier State Office Building in Nashville. Highly acclaimed as an illustrator, Cornwell also designed and painted more than twenty murals in American public buildings. |