Long Beach Public Library. 101 Pacific Avenue, Long Beach, CA 90802. (click to view)
Suzanne Miller, assisted by Bessie Peirce Heller. From left to right: Panel 1: 'Hiawatha' (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow); Panel 2: 'The Faerie Queene' (Edmund Spenser); Panel 3: 'Pilgrim's Progress' (John Bunyan); Panel 4: 'L'Allegro' and 'Il Penseroso' (John Milton), 'The Vicar of Wakefield' (Oliver Goldsmith), and 'Rip Vam Winkle' (Washington Irving); Panel 5: 'King Solomon and the Two Mothers' from the Bible; Panel 6: 'Man with the Hoe' (Edwin Markham), 'Alice in Wonderland' (Lewis Carroll), 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' (Thomas Gray), 'The Compleat Angler' (Izaak Walton); Panel 7: 'The Lady of Shalot' (Alfred Lord Tennyson); Panel 8: 'The Tempest' (William Shakespeare); Panel 9: 'The Canterbury Tales' (Geoffrey Chaucery). The artist originally painted 14 scenes from classic British, American, and Old Testament literature for the Lincoln Park branch of the Long Beach library. However, when that branch burned down several years ago, the murals were moved to their present location.
Photo: © Robin Dunitz