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Originally Posted by MartinTurnbull
Has anybody ever seen a color photo of the NBC foyer? It's such an amazing mural, you think someone would have thought to capture it in color...?
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Umm, well, actually, I've made a few posts about that very question the past few months. I've made some inquiries here and there, but have little information, other than:
--There appears to be very few photographs of the mural at all.
--Someone at L.A. Heritage heard that the mural was saved, but Bruce Torrence at Hollywood Photographs is adamant that it was not.
--The painter of the mural, Ed Turnbull, painted several murals in U.S. cities and you can find color photos of those, mostly because the murals are still there, including the one in the ceiling of the Chrysler Building in NYC, which was painted on canvas and then cemented in place.
--The NBC mural is usually called/titled "The Power of Radio."
--Some folks at L.A.P.L. and L.A. Conservancy have been looking into this a bit, but so far have not come up with anything.
Yes, you would think "someone" would have thought to photograph it in color, at least when the building was to be disassembled, but, come to think of it, the only color photographs of the mural at the back entrance of Bullock's Wilshire I have seen are all modern ones, so who knows?
I've seen lots of tourist photos taken "outside" the NBC Building, perhaps photographs were not allowed to be taken inside the lobby area. I've even been trying to find someone that might have actually seen the mural in person.
I hope you have posted this query on one of your Garden of Allah blog pages somewhere, too. Maybe a reader will come up with something...even another b&w photo of it or a tourist photo, perhaps.
Have you ever done a blog entry about Monkey Island?