Airport murals

Tuesday
Jen and Jason left after breakfast, and within an hour I was on my way down to the airport to pick up our friend Bill who was coming to stay for a few days. We had lived in France from 1986-96, and for the last three years Bill was chaplain of the English-speaking church we attended. He had visited us once over here, we believe in 1998, but we hadn't seen him since. He has been over here on sabbatical for three months, and we are his penultimate point of call. I arrived at the airport in plenty of time, so while I was waiting I snapped a picture of some of the murals. The 14 murals in the airport terminals originally adorned the walls of Cincinnati's Union Terminal railway station. The murals were designed by German-born artist Winold Reiss (1886-1953). Reiss felt a strong affinity with people of humble origins, and with his Union Terminal murals, Reiss found a way to showcase the strength and dignity of the American worker on a massive scale. When Union Terminal was sold in 1972, the new owners announced plans to demolish the portion that contained 14 of Reiss' murals. This prompted citizens to raise money to remove the murals and transport them to the airport. The two murals  in my blip depict, on the left, the William S. Merrell pharmaceutical company, and on the right, the Baldwin Piano Company.

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