The J. F. Kennedy Memorial, a mosaic mural to John F. Kennedy, by Kenneth Budd on Floodgate Street, Digbeth, Eastside, Birmingham, West Midlands.
«The mosaic was erected on St Chad's Circus, outside the City's Roman Catholic St Chad's Cathedral, in July 1968, at a cost of £5,000. When the road system was redeveloped in 2007 the mosaic was demolished. Key features, including the heads of some of the main figures, were retrieved and retained by Kenneth Budd's son Oliver.
In 2012 it was re-created using new materials. The new mosaic was erected in January 2013, in the city's Irish Quarter, on Floodgate Street in Digbeth, in reworked form, including the controversial addition of a new face, that of former Lord Mayor of Birmingham Mike Nangle, the city's first Irish Lord Mayor. The work was overseen by Budd's son, Oliver, who worked from his father's original drawings. The retained sections were not used as the colours had faded and would not match the new Smalti mosiac tiles. A formal unveiling took place on 23 February 2013.
Featured alongside Kennedy in the mosaic are his brother Teddy, the Seal of the President of the United States (using real gold), Martin Luther King, American policemen and other figures.» (Ben Abel on flickr, 2017)
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- 2024-04-28 10:49:53 / Davida Fernández-Barkan
- 2024-04-28 10:49:18 / Davida Fernández-Barkan, Of Murals and Men, American art, 2023-03, Vol.37 (1), p. 32-57
- 2024-04-27 16:05:42 / Scott Nichols Gallery: Frida & Diego, A Personal Memoir: Photographs by Lucienne Bloch
- 2024-04-27 16:03:56 / Diego Rivera, Lucienne Bloch, Lou Block, Stephen Dimitroff, Seymour Fogel, […], Man at the Crossroads, 1933, RCA Building, Rockefeller Center, entry hall, 570 Lexington Avenue, New York
- 2024-04-27 15:59:41 / Diego Rivera, Ramón Alva Guadarrama, Victor Arnautoff, Ione Robinson, La epopeya del pueblo mexicano (de la derecha a la izquierda): El antiguo México. — De la […], 1929–35, Palacio Nacional (escalera principal), Plaza de la Constitucion (Avenida Pino Suarez, Corregido[…]
- 2024-04-27 15:55:20 / Elizabeth Frasco, Walls Call: Women Artists of the NYC WPA in Mexico, 1929–1936, Woman s Art […]
- 2024-04-27 15:54:45 / Elizabeth Frasco
- 2024-04-27 15:54:30 / Elizabeth Frasco, Walls Call: Women Artists of the NYC WPA in Mexico, 1929–1936, Woman s Art Journal 43(2), Nov. 2022
- 2024-04-27 15:48:58 / Tracy A. Marciano, Diego Rivera’s psychedelic Rockefeller Center mural was destroyed before i[…]
- 2024-04-27 15:48:43 / Tracy A. Marciano
- 2024-04-27 15:48:15 / Tracy A. Marciano, Diego Rivera’s psychedelic Rockefeller Center mural was destroyed before it was finished, 1934, 6 sqft New York City, October 17, 2016
- 2024-04-27 12:57:16 / Thomas Mcg. Thomas Jr., Lucienne Bloch, Muralist, Is Dead at 90, The New York Times, March 28, 1999
- 2024-04-27 12:56:59 / Thomas Mcg. Thomas Jr., Lucienne Bloch, Muralist, Is Dead at 90, The New York Times, March 28, 1999
- 2024-04-27 12:56:48 / Thomas Mcg. Thomas Jr.
- 2024-04-27 12:48:11 / Charlotte Rubinstein, American Women Artists: from early Indian times to the present, Boston 1982
- 2024-04-27 12:48:00 / Charlotte Rubinstein
- 2024-04-27 12:43:01 / Lucienne Bloch on Ernest Bloch Family
- 2024-04-27 12:28:47 / Lucienne Bloch and Stephen Dimitroff RARE Interview on Youtube
- 2024-04-27 12:25:27 / Emilio Baz Viaud
- 2024-04-26 22:54:47 / Lucienne Bloch, Mural, Calvary Presbyterian Church, 2515 Fillmore St, San Francisco CA, USA
- 2024-04-26 22:52:19 / OBITUARY Stephen Dimitroff, Muralist, Framer, SF Gate, Sep 9, 1996
- 2024-04-26 22:51:54 / OBITUARY Stephen Dimitroff, Muralist, Framer, SF Gate, Sep 9, 1996
- 2024-04-26 22:51:02 / Lucienne Bloch, Mural, St. Mary the Virgin Episcopal Church, 2325 Union St, San Francisco CA, USA
- 2024-04-26 22:49:23 / Elizabeth Creeley, The Marine Firemen’s Union Hall is being sold, Elizabeth Creeley, May 15, 2017
- 2024-04-26 22:49:08 / Elizabeth Creeley