Work Record

ID: Canal_Market_Mural

Class [controlled]: visual works

Work Type [link]: mural painting

Title: Canal Market Mural | Title Type: preferred

Creator display: designed and painted by Curtis Goldstein (American, contemporary), assisted by Lenise Alexandra Sunnenberg (American, contemporary)

Role [link]: designer * painter | [link] Goldstein

Role [link]: painter | [link] Sunnenberg

Display Date: 2016

[controlled] Earliest: 2016 | Latest: 2016

Subject [links]: mural painting and decoration * local history * storefronts * barbershop * Edward James Roye

Current Location [link]: Newark (Ohio, United States)

Measurements: 13 x 80 ft 

Materials and Techniques: acrylic paint on an exterior brick wall

Material [link]: paint * brick | Technique [link]: painting

Style [link]: Contemporary

Description: The mural depicts three historic storefronts of Newark businesses that were located in Newark in the 1800s and early 1900s, and a barbershop of the artist's imagination. The stores from left to right are: (1) Evans Drugs Store, (2) The Crane, Krieg, Flory Hardware Company, (3) Fleek and Son Wholesale Grocers. The owners of these stores are revered as the founding fathers of Newark. The final business is a barbershop of Goldstein’s creation belonging to Edward James Roye. Roye, a Newark native, never owned a barber shop in his hometown, though he did later open one in Terre Haute, Indiana. During his life, Roye would serve as the fifth president of Liberia.