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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- 2024-05-02 23:11:14 / Alex Marshall, An Artist’s Response to a Racist Mural Walks a Fine Line, The New York Times, March 12, 2024
- 2024-05-02 23:10:27 / Alex Marshall
- 2024-05-02 23:10:00 / Alex Marshall, An Artist’s Response to a Racist Mural Walks a Fine Line, The New York Times, March 12, 2024
- 2024-05-02 14:41:18 / Giuseppe Scartezzini, Fassadendekoration, 1942, Haus zum Fliederbusch, Fliederstrasse 22, Zürich, Schweiz
- 2024-05-01 18:51:40 / Greta Berman, The Lost Years: Mural Painting in New York City Under the Works Progress Administration’s Fed[…], Ph.D. diss., Columbia Univ., 1975
- 2024-05-01 18:47:32 / Blanck
- 2024-05-01 18:47:09 / Blanck, Muralist Enjoys Her Work at Red Hook Development, Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 10
- 2024-05-01 18:43:14 / Karal Ann Marling, * November 5, 1943 in Rochester, New York. B.A. degree in art history from the University of To[…]
- 2024-05-01 18:43:06 / Helen A. Harrison
- 2024-05-01 18:42:56 / Rosemarie Haag Blettler
- 2024-05-01 18:42:23 / Concetta Scaravaglione
- 2024-05-01 18:39:57 / Minna Citron
- 2024-05-01 18:37:30 / Helen A. Harrison, Karal Ann Marling, 7 American Women: The Depression Decade, Poughkeepsie, NY 1976
- 2024-05-01 18:31:13 / Marlene Park, City and Country in the 1930s: A Study of New Deal Murals in New York, Art Journal 39, no. 1 (Autumn 1979): 38
- 2024-05-01 18:28:17 / Marion Greenwood Applauded for Steady Rise to Mural Fame, Washington Post, April 12, 1936
- 2024-05-01 18:24:42 / McKinley Helm
- 2024-05-01 18:23:24 / McKinley Helm, Modern Mexican Painters, New York: Dover, 1941
- 2024-05-01 18:19:14 / Fanny Rabel, *1922, americana, miembro del grupo de los Fridos, discipulos de Frida Kahlo
- 2024-05-01 18:19:01 / Anna Lagos
- 2024-05-01 18:18:42 / Margarita Aguilar Urbán
- 2024-05-01 18:18:23 / Erika Cervantes
- 2024-05-01 18:18:12 / Aurora Reyes, * Hidalgo del Parral, September 9, 1908, † Mexico City, April 26, 1985. Mexican painter who w[…]
- 2024-05-01 18:17:56 / Dina Comisarenco Mirkin
- 2024-05-01 18:17:45 / Marion Greenwood, * Brooklyn, April 6, 1909, † Woodstock, New York, August 20, 1970. American painter and engra[…]
- 2024-05-01 18:17:31 / Grace Greenwood Ames, * Brooklyn, January 15, 1905, † New York City, July 21, 1979. American painter and muralist. […]