On Thursday, July 8, 2010, at 6 pm, the Nicolaysen Art Museum, 400 E. Collins Drive in Casper, WY, will co-present with Hilltop National Bank “The Conservation and Restoration of Allen True’s Murals,” a lecture by Carmen F. Bria, Jr., Director and Chief Conservator at the Western Center for the Conservation of Fine Arts in Denver, CO. Mr. Bria has worked on over thirty murals by Allen Tupper True during the past twenty years, including his murals in Denver at the former Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Building (now owned by Quest); two murals in the Greek Theatre and two in the Voorhies Memorial at Civic Center; several murals in Graland Country Day School; and the ten murals in the Colorado State Capitol; as well as the Mother Goose nursery murals in the historic Day Nursery of the Colorado Springs Child Nursery Centers in Colorado Springs.
The lecture is free and open to the public. A cash bar and appetizers will be available. For more information, call the Museum at 307-235-5247 or check its website at www.thenic.org.
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