Kansas State University Farrell Library Studies- Agriculture and The Arts

Artist David Hicks Overmyer (United States, 1889 - 1973)

Date1934

MediumOpaque watercolor and graphite on paper

DimensionsIMAGE/SHEET: 15 1/2 x 11 in. (393.7 x 279.4 mm)

Object TypeDrawings

Credit LineKSU, Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, gift of David C. Overmyer

Object number1990.9

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Description

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David Overmyer’s New Deal murals in the great room of Kansas State University’s main library allegorize the four areas of study available during the late 1920s to the Kansas State Agricultural College students: agriculture, mechanics (science and industry), arts (music, literature, drama, painting, and architecture), and home economics.

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