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23 mosaic murals
- Ultimately there was space for 23 mosaic murals in the terminal building.
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The Winold Reiss industrial murals are a set of 16 tile mosaic murals displaying manufacturing in Cincinnati, Ohio. The works were created by Winold Reiss for Cincinnati Union Terminal from 1931 to 1932, and made up 11,908 of the 18,150 square feet of art in the terminal. [1]
CVG is the proud home of 5 Winold Reiss industrial murals. Originally a set of 16 tile mosaic murals, the works were created by Winold Reiss for Cincinnati Union Terminal from 1931 to 1932 and later moved to CVG in August 1973.
Cincinnati Union Terminal features works of art throughout its interior spaces. The works of art originally included 23 mosaic murals, [60] totaling 18,150 square feet (1,686 m 2), [57] making it the largest collection of secular mosaics in the United States in 1933. [61]
Mar 16, 2015 · Two large murals line the walls of the rotunda. The one on the North side depicts American transportation from the time of Native Americans to the present day air transports (circa 1933); the South mural depicts Cincinnati’s growth up to 1933. All the murals in the station were the work of Winold Reiss.
Jan 19, 2016 · Left side of the Union Terminal murals charts the history of the country through figures in the foreground. It is 1950 — let’s say — and after an arduous, three-hour journey via train, you step off onto the platform of Cincinnati’s Union Terminal.
Reiss executed numerous other mosaic murals, among them two depicting construction of the terminal; two others above the train arrival and departure boards; and, today among the best-known, fourteen more depicting major Cincinnati industries.
