Town Hall Mural - Hyannis, MA
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silverquill
N 41° 39.097 W 070° 16.961
19T E 393192 N 4611891
This mural of an old schooner is painted on the wall in the lobby of what is now the Town Hall for Barnstable, Massachusett, which was the State Teacher College in 1937 when it was created by V. H. Van Colememan.
Waymark Code: WM77FM
Location: Massachusetts, United States
Date Posted: 09/14/2009
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The artist is Vernon H. Van Coleman 1898-1978
The mural was a gift by the artist to the town of Barnstable when the building housed the Massachusetts Marine Academy, in 1944.
From
The Barnstable Patriot
Vernon H. Coleman “spent much of his life in Barnstable, descended from people who lived in the Hyannis area, and knew a lot of people” as a driver for his dad’s bakery, according to his son, Vernon E. Coleman of Marstons Mills.
Vernon H. Coleman (1898-1978) was an educator in the Barnstable school system for 22 years until his retirement in the mid-1960s.
Publicity for the program notes that the elder Coleman, nicknamed “Van,” painted more than 100 murals for the Works Progress Administration, which created jobs for artists during the Great Depression of the 1930s.