Walls Speak: The Narrative
Art of Hildreth Meière

Hildreth Meière's glass mosaic designs for the Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis are some of the most stunning reinterpretations of early-Christian iconography. Walls Speak: The Narrative Art of Hildreth Meière is an exhibition on view at the National Building Museum from March 19 - November 27, 2011. Visit the National Building museum online for more podcasts and video.

Hildreth Meière's mosaic for the Travelers Insurance Company illustrates traveling in nineteenth-century America, when travel was high risk.Walls Speak: The Narrative Art of Hildreth Meière is an exhibition on view at the National Building Museum from March 19 - November 27, 2011. Visit the National Building museum online for more podcasts and video.

Hildreth Meière's metal sculpture on the exterior of the Medicine and Public Health Building depicts Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine, and the Dragon of Ignorance. Walls Speak: The Narrative Art of Hildreth Meière is an exhibition on view at the National Building Museum from March 19 - November 27, 2011. Visit the National Building museum online for more podcasts and video.

For Radio City Music Hall, Hildreth Meière designed the exterior, mixed-metal and enamel sculptures Dance, Drama, and Song.Walls Speak: The Narrative Art of Hildreth Meière is an exhibition on view at the National Building Museum from March 19 - November 27, 2011. Visit the National Building museum online for more podcasts and video.

For the apse at St. Bartholomew's Church in New York City, Hildreth Meières employed Byzantine-style glass mosaics for the first time. Walls Speak: The Narrative Art of Hildreth Meière is an exhibition on view at the National Building Museum from March 19 - November 27, 2011. Visit the National Building museum online for more podcasts and video.

The dome for the Great Hall of the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C., was Hildreth Meière's first major architectural commission. Walls Speak: The Narrative Art of Hildreth Meière is an exhibition on view at the National Building Museum from March 19 - November 27, 2011. Visit the National Building museum online for more podcasts and video.

Muralist Hildreth Meière's designs for the Nebraska State Capitol relate the history of Nebraska to the ideals of Western civilization. Walls Speak: The Narrative Art of Hildreth Meière is an exhibition on view at the National Building Museum from March 19 - November 27, 2011. Visit the National Building museum online for more podcasts and video.

Walls Speak: The Narrative Art of Hildreth Meière is an exhibition on view at the National Building Museum from March 19 - November 27, 2011. Curator Catherine Coleman Brawer introduces the exhibition and the art deco muralist and designer, Hildreth Meière. Visit the National Building museum online for more podcasts and video.