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JHS185, Queens, NY-mural
Henry Varnum Poor's mural made for 25Q185 (the NYC Board of Education’s designation for JHS 185, 147-26 25th Drive, Flushing, Queens) is installed near the entrance to the school on the facade, inside a fence. As a result of the Central Park mural at Mt. Sinai Hospital, an architect who designed this school, Ralph Pomerance, invited Poor to make a mural for Edward Bleeker Junior High School.Because of the severely rectilinear pattern of the building Henry broke both the top and bottom boundary lines of his design, so that the mural itself, surrounded by the yellow brick of the wall, varied in height from ten to seven nine-inch-square tiles. More information about HVP's architectural ceramics can be found in my article, "Architectural Ceramics of Henry Varnum Poor", on my blog, tilesinnewyork.blogspot.com/2013/01/architectural-ceramic...
JHS185, Queens, NY-mural
Henry Varnum Poor's mural made for 25Q185 (the NYC Board of Education’s designation for JHS 185, 147-26 25th Drive, Flushing, Queens) is installed near the entrance to the school on the facade, inside a fence. As a result of the Central Park mural at Mt. Sinai Hospital, an architect who designed this school, Ralph Pomerance, invited Poor to make a mural for Edward Bleeker Junior High School.Because of the severely rectilinear pattern of the building Henry broke both the top and bottom boundary lines of his design, so that the mural itself, surrounded by the yellow brick of the wall, varied in height from ten to seven nine-inch-square tiles. More information about HVP's architectural ceramics can be found in my article, "Architectural Ceramics of Henry Varnum Poor", on my blog, tilesinnewyork.blogspot.com/2013/01/architectural-ceramic...