Huntington to Install 19th-Century American Murals
Jonathan D. Poor, Trickey House murals (as installed in Nantucket), about 1835. Photo: T. Walsh, courtesy of the Center for Painted Wall Preservation Karin and Jonathan Fielding have donated a set of early 19th-century murals from a Maine home to the Huntington. Attributed to Jonathan D. Poor (1807–1845), the seven panels of feathery trees, meadows, and waterways are to be installed in the American art galleries as part of a reinstallation timed to the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. The landscape murals will become the only 19th-century East Coast wall paintings on display in the Western U.S. The murals were commissioned for the Zebulon Trickey House in Westbrook, Maine. Jonathan D. Poor was nephew and apprentice to Rufus Porter, a portraitist, muralist, inventor, and founder of Scientific American magazine. Poor's signature appears on a dozen murals in Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts. As many as 30 more murals have been assigned to him on stylistic...
