Albuquerque Little Theater, original façade: "The
front of the building was designed to have a sort of shallow porch. The
upper walls of this recessed area were decorated with a fresco painting by
Dorothy Stewart[1] of Santa Fe. She was assisted by Samuel Moreno, a
Mexican artist then in Albuquerque. The painting covers 900 square feet of
plaster, and, to quote the legend inscribed below, it depicts a
Battle
Scene between the Moors and Christians in the Drama of Los Moros."[2].
The mural was destroyed during a renovation [presumably the erection of the
new façade] "some years ago"[3]. The balconied window on the right is also
seen in the
2014 image, indicating the original
building still exists.
References
- Dorothy
Stewart, Wikipedia, accessed 15 July 2019.
- Terry Ray, The
Albuquerque Little Theatre, New Mexico Quarterly, Volume 30,
Issue 1, 1960.
- Kathryn A. Flynn, Public Art and Architecture in New Mexico
1933-1943: A guide to the New Deal Legacy, Sunstone Press (2012), pp.29-30.