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Herculaneum -- Where Shot-making Was an Industry, (painting). Artist:  Berninghaus, Oscar Edmund, 1874-1952, painter. Title:  Herculaneum -- Where Shot-making Was an Industry, (painting). Dates:  1920. Dimensions:  6 x 12 ft. Description:  This lunette, one of twenty-two along the second floor corridor, depicts the town of Herculaneum located along the Mississippi River between two limestone bluffs approximately a mile apart. The town buildings are seen on the right and the Mississippi River with boats docked along the banks is seen on the left. In the background there is one of the limestone cliffs where molten shot was dropped to the level below. The shot was then shipped all over the country. Subject:  History -- United States -- Missouri Landscape -- Missouri -- Herculaneum Landscape -- River -- Missouri River Architecture exterior Architecture -- Boat Figure group Object Type:  Mural Lunette Painting Owner:  Missouri State Capitol, 2nd floor corridor, Jefferson City, Missouri 65101 References:  Sanders, Gordon E., "Oscar Berninghaus, Taos, New Mexico: master painter of American Indians and the frontier West," Taos: Taos Heritage Publishing Co., 1985, id #12056. Missouri Capitol Commission Board, "The Missouri State Capitol," 1983 rev. ed. Illustration:  Sanders, Gordon E., "Oscar Berninghaus, Taos, New Mexico: master painter of American Indians and the frontier West," Taos: Taos Heritage Publishing Co., 1985, pg. 42. Missouri Capitol Commission Board, "The Missouri State Capitol," 1983 rev. ed., (Pickard: Report of the Capitol Decoration Commission: pg. 102). Note:  The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide. Repository:  Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 Control Number:  IAP 27620044   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Paintings 27620044 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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