Meeting of the Original Directors of Clemson College, (painting).

Meeting of the Original Directors of Clemson College, (painting).

Carroll, John, 1892-1959, painter.

Meeting of the Original Directors of Clemson College, (painting).

Approx. 62 x 168 in.

The seven original life trustees of Clemson College standing beneath a tree. Marching cadets are on the right side, and two campus buildings are in the background.

Landscape -- South Carolina -- Clemson

Architecture exterior -- Education -- College

Clemson University, College Avenue, Clemson, South Carolina 29634

Painted under the U.S. Treasury Department's Section of Fine Arts project during the New Deal era. Figures were copied from photographs of portraits. Originally done for the campus/town post office. The mural has been moved twice to other buildings. Some of the bottom of the original mural has been lost.

Clemson University, 2010.

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