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Francis Vandeveer Kughler

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  1. Francis Vandeveer Kughler paints history murals for the Knapp Building auditorium At Margaret Knapp's wish the Institute's new building received fourteen large murals by New York painter Francis Vandeveer Kughler, a commission put at $100,000, showing scenes from North Carolina history with living North Carolinians painted in period dress. Kughler began early in 1956, working part of the time in Person Hall on the campus, and all the panels were hung in the auditorium by the fall of 1960. Place: Knapp Building, Institute of Government, Chapel Hill · Also named: Margaret Knapp · Also mentions: Person HallSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), pp. 245-247, 252

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By Francis Vandeveer Kughler

Murals of North Carolina

Kughler, Francis Vandeveer · 1960

Fourteen plates of Francis Vandeveer Kughler's murals of North Carolina history, painted for the Institute of Government building at Chapel Hill, with six pages of text. Dated 1960 and also carried as a special March 1961 number of the magazine Popular Government. Topics include American mural painting in Chapel Hill and North Carolina history in pictorial works.

The first colony

Kughler, Francis Vandeveer, 1901-1970 · 1961

Francis Vandeveer Kughler's mural of the Roanoke colony is the subject of this 1961 item published in North Carolina. Topics include American mural painting and decoration at Chapel Hill along with Kughler himself and the Roanoke Colony, so it documents a work of public art on an early North Carolina subject and the painter who made it.

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