Albert Herter - Murals

Murals

• The Pageant of Nations (1913) - seven murals adorning The Mural Room at the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco. Included a portrait of Gertrude Atherton posing as "California". The Mural Room was torn down and remade as a larger lobby and front desk area during hotel expansion in 1971. The Herter murals were taken down and placed in storage.
• An Allegory of Education and Fundamental Orders 1638-1639 in the Connecticut Supreme Court at Hartford (1913) painted on canvas at Herter's studio at "The Creeks" on Long Island, New York, taken to Hartford and affixed to wall and ceiling with white lead.
• Four murals at the Wisconsin State Capitol at Madison (1915)

• Le Départ des poilus, août 1914 given to the people of France after World War I in which Albert Herter lost a son
• Prometheus in the Great Hall and Lincoln in the Board Room at the National Academy of Sciences (1924)
• Eight untitled murals at the Los Angeles Public Library (1928)
• In the Warner Brothers Hollywood Theatre (1928) (murals have since been taken down)
• In the portico of The Society of Four Arts Library in Palm Beach, Florida
• Five mural-sized paintings Milestones on the Road to Freedom in Massachusetts (1942) House of Representatives, Massachusetts State House, Boston