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- south-carolinas-new-deal-murals.html accessdate "2014-07-31".
- south-carolinas-new-deal-murals.html isCitedBy Stefan_Hirsch.
- south-carolinas-new-deal-murals.html quote "Stefan Hirsch’s “Justice as Protector and Avenger” in the Charles E. Simmons, Jr. Federal Court House in Aiken was the cause of public outrage. The bold use of shape and color echoed stylistic elements of the Mexican muralist Diego Rivera. The strong angles and contrasting colors led presiding Judge Frank K. Myers to derisively call it “contemporary art.” But it wasn’t just the modern appearance that made citizens upset, it was the figure of Justice herself. Some believed that she was bi-racial, which was not considered to be in keeping with the “Southern conception of art.” Even though the artist denied that the figure was bi-racial, this un-vanilla representation of Justice in Jim Crow South Carolina was enough for the judge to hang curtains over the mural. Since then, the mural has remained obscured, since it is viewed as being a courtroom distraction.".
- south-carolinas-new-deal-murals.html title "South Carolina’s New Deal Murals".
- south-carolinas-new-deal-murals.html url south-carolinas-new-deal-murals.html.
- south-carolinas-new-deal-murals.html work "Palmetto Past, South Carolina Department of Archives and History".