GDG- Cyclorama Painting

[Margaret D. Blough]

Teej,

You should have heard Sue Boardman's First Corps Breakfast presentation last month on the restoration of Cyclorama painting owned by GNMP.  The original estimates have skyrocketed due to a number of factors, including the tedious and time-consuming work of removing prior restoration efforts, bringing in a team of Polish experts who are among the very few people in the world with practical experience in restoring, hanging, and preserving cyclorama paintings, and rebuilding the dioramas that were part of the original presentation of the painting.  How it is hung is critical. They are designed to be hung in a parabola which disperses the enormous weight of the canvas.  The GNMP painting had been hung in the Neutra-designed building hanging down straight which put enormous strains on the painting.  Cyclorama paintings are wonderful and awe-inspiring but they are expensive, complicated monsters to own and maintain.

Regards,

Margaret

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From: "Teej Smith" <teej at nc.rr.com> 

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> > the three NC Business men should try to get a major art museum like the 
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> > Museum of Art in NY to buy it, they would have to build a facility to show 
> > it off properly 
> > though. I bet they could to it and make back their investment. 
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> Several years ago the North Carolina Civil War Tourism Council was given 
> the opportunity to purchase the cyclorama. First of all, raising enough 
> money to pay for the paintings was daunting, not to mention the cost of 
> building a facility to house it, plus the cost of moving something that 
> weighs 10 tons, and, as I recall, some of the panels needed work. In the end 
> it proved to be more than the NCCWTC could realistically handle. At that 
> time a banking corporation was looking at it as well with the idea of 
> breaking up the panels and hanging them in their various branch offices but 
> I think they came to the same conclusion. I wish the Tar Heel businessmen 
> the best of luck in finding a good home for the cyclorama because, from the 
> slides I saw of it, it truly is breath-taking. 
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> Regards, 
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