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visitors as they ascended the grand entry stairs. Taft was one of America’s most respected living sculptors, author of the classic book, The History of American Sculpture, and director of his own school and atelier in Chicago (where Enrique Alférez studied before moving to New Orleans). Lee Lawrie, the sculptor of the Nebraska State Capitol, created the architrave sculpture at the entrance and the temple form at the top of the building. Ulric Ellerhusen created a sculptural frieze and four figures on the tower. Adolph Weinman created two relief panels on the front facade and a statue of Governor William C.C. Claiborne in the building. Inside, Jules Guerin painted two major murals for Memorial Hall. In the center of Memorial Hall was a massive bronze relief map, designed by the architect Solis Seiferth, showing the state’s geographic features, plant and animal life, oil fields, and other details, surrounded by a bronze railing designed by Angela Gregory. Conrad Albrizio painted six murals featuring subjects such as Industrial Louisiana, Trucking Cotton and Cutting Sugarcane and Allegory of Louisiana.29 The Long Administration completed the new 34-story capitol WILL HENRY STEVENS (b. 1881, Vevay, Indiana – d. 1949, Vevay, Indiana) Ships in the River, ca. 1942 Oil on canvas on stretcher; 22 x 30 in. Ogden Museum of Southern Art Gift of the Roger H. Ogden Collection in a little over one year, a remarkable feat, and dedicated it on May 16, 1932. The capitol alone brought national artists to Baton Rouge, and also brought the attention of the national media and art press to the project and to the state. Long was shot inside his new building on September 8, 1935, by Dr. Carl Austin Weiss, and died two days later, on September 10, 1935. This event was immortalized by John McCrady in a painting commissioned by Life magazine, titled The Shooting of Huey Long (1939). The range of federally supported PWA and WPA building and construction projects across Louisiana in the years from 1933 to 1943 is remarkable, impacting almost every parish in the state. Charity Hospital in New Orleans, the Louisiana State LOUISIANA: THE NEW CENTURY 125 http://www.knowla.org/entry.php?rec=1001 http://www.knowla.org/entry.php?rec=1001

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