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Lunken’s Forgotten Murals and the Artist Who Created Them

by Franck Mercurio, Publications Editor

12/23/2024

Lunken Airport murals, WPA, New Deal, Art Deco, William Harry Gothard, CAMConservation, Sky Galley

In December 1937, the Cincinnati Enquirer interviewed William “Harry” Gothard (1908–1968), a 29-year-old artist and budding art conservator, as he painted the final touches on two murals created for Lunken Airport’s newly constructed Administration building.