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"Communion throughout Space" octagonal, from the mural series "The Building of the House of Wisdom," Charlton Yarnall House
"Communion throughout Space" octagonal, from the mural series "The Building of the House of Wisdom," Charlton Yarnall House

"Communion throughout Space" octagonal, from the mural series "The Building of the House of Wisdom," Charlton Yarnall House

Yarnall House, "The House of Wisdom"
,
Philadelphia, PA

Object Details

Title:
"Communion throughout Space" octagonal, from the mural series "The Building of the House of Wisdom," Charlton Yarnall House
Date:
1910–11
Artist:
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
29 x 29 1/8 in
Classification
Murals
Credit Line:
Gift of the Southeast Pennsylvania Chapter of the American Red Cross, 1963
Description

Arching over the lunette Man and Science were three octagonal panels celebrating the technological innovations that were shaping the new century, Communion throughout Space, The Search for Light, and Aviation.In Communion throughout Space, two female muses flank a man on a wireless who resembles the American painter and inventor of the telegraph, Samuel F.B. Morse. It is inscribed “the soul between the material and spiritual theory of light.”

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