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Artist/Creator (1)	Wehrle, John (born 1941)
Artist/Creator (1).Nationality	American
Artist/Creator (1).Role	artist, painter, muralist
Title/Caption	Galileo, Jupiter, Apollo
Variant Title/Caption	Galileo-Jupiter-Apollo
Site/Creative Center	Los Angeles, California (United States)
Date of Work	1984
Description of View	Detail view showing planet
Notes	Located on the north retaining wall of the 101 Freeway between Spring Street and Broadway, Los Angeles, CA. Project Description: This work was commissioned for the Summer Olympics in 1984. The mural contains imagery of fragmented classical buildings, Greco-Roman gods, space ships and astronauts floating together in outer space. [Note: In 2010 Caltrans, the state authority that owned the mural, had it painted over. It deemed too heavily defaced with graffiti to successfully restored.]
Technique/Process	painting
Materials/Medium	Keim paint on concrete (Keim is a silicate paint that binds directly with the concrete)
Dimensions	Length: 207 ft. Height at west: 24 1/2 ft. Height at east: 19 1/2 ft.
Century	20th Century
Subject	Painting, American Painting, 20th Century Mural paintings (visual works) Street art Freeways Planets Architecture, Classical Sculpture, Classical
Publisher	ART on FILE
Publisher.Location	ART on FILE. 1837 East Shelby St. Seattle, Washington 98112 (United States). www.artonfile.com
Set/Project Title	Contemporary Murals in America
Reference Number	Art on File MUR-24(3)-2
Collection Title	Painting (Art and Art History Department images)
Collection Information	Collection administered by Visual Resources manager, Architecture Library (402) 472-1193
Copyright Information	http://contentdm.unl.edu/ah_copyright.html

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