{"id":13893,"date":"2015-05-02T13:33:09","date_gmt":"2015-05-02T20:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/?p=13893"},"modified":"2016-04-13T23:12:26","modified_gmt":"2016-04-14T03:12:26","slug":"stlseries-black-aviators-and-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/stlseries-black-aviators-and-robots\/","title":{"rendered":"#StLSeries: Black Aviators, and Robots"},"content":{"rendered":"

Other art on display at Lambert International Airport in St. Louis near the C Gates disembark zone – in addition to Alicia LaChance’s excellent floor piece<\/a> – include an 8’x51′ multi-panel mural of Black Americans in Flight<\/a> by Spencer Taylor and Solomon Thurman, and an exhibition of robots and parts<\/a> in the Lambert Gallery.<\/p>\n

The Black Americans in Flight panels are superbly painted, and rich with history, spanning 1917 until the late 1980s. This set on Flickr<\/a> include some great wide shots I couldn’t achieve with the glass panels in front of the mural, along with some excellent in-progress shots from the early 1980s showing the artists at work!<\/p>\n

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The panels wryly include a portrait of Harry S. Truman, whom any POTUS historian or Missouri native will note is the only POTUS from that state to achieve the high office; in my mind he’ll always be remembered as the man who dropped Little Boy and Fat Man on the Japanese, a most-difficult decision indeed:<\/p>\n