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Restoration for 'Freedom' Murals at Archives

July 31, 2002
By CELESTINE BOHLEN

WASHINGTON - The Declaration of Independence and the United
States Constitution are big subjects for an artist, and big
is certainly the word for the two giant murals - each
measuring more than 34 feet long and almost 13 feet high -
that hang on the walls of the cavernous rotunda inside the
National Archives building here.

The murals were commissioned in 1934 as background for the
nation's most precious documents: the Declaration of
Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights,
collectively called the charters of freedom, which in an
average year are seen by a million or so visitors.

The murals' execution and installation was a mammoth
effort, and the meticulous restoration they are now
undergoing in a studio in northern Virginia is no less
elaborate a job. (continued at link below.....)


http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/31/arts/design/31MURA.html?ex=1029216736&ei=1
&en=a05caf685bb55e71



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