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18-Oct-2020

1333 H Street NE

This alley just off H Street was a treasure trove of murals. CHRS says this is a statehood mural, but I’m not so sure about that. Note: The Caps are our hockey team, who won the Stanley Cup in 2018.

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The Capitol Hill Restoration Society is offering a new walking tour, this time featuring murals around the Hill, about which they say:

“Capitol Hill is home to many dazzling (some, quite literally) works of art, painted on the exteriors of homes and businesses. Some murals are well known to the community – but we’ve included them because we love them and the Mural Tour wouldn’t be complete without them. Others may be familiar only to their immediate neighbors. Several of them have been on view for decades but many are more recent, including those that are part of the DC Statehood Murals project. A couple are on the sidewalk. One is not actually a mural at all but it’s art on the exterior of a structure, so no reason not to give it the attention it deserves. … Art is always best appreciated in person; particularly true in this case where the scale and placement of the work made photography a challenge.”

Best to view in "Original" because other versions resized by Pbase are decidedly
unsharp.

500 12th Street SE, posted earlier:

Apple iPhone 11 Pro
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Don Mottershead27-Oct-2020 01:26
This one is a puzzler. I guess it means that hockey is woke, but golf is not.
Julie Oldfield22-Oct-2020 17:58
Love it! A lot of emotion conveyed. V
janescottcumming22-Oct-2020 12:54
Ha, colorful and creative. V
Fong Lam22-Oct-2020 07:34
Lovely bright colors in this well captured mural.....V
victorswan22-Oct-2020 06:42
lovely you are correct I think Helen, that drawing has a meaning somewhere or represents a certain something, in my opinion it is a reference to a certain something that was of great significance to this artist, that is usually the essence of a mural.
beautifully photographed Helen very fine work BV +++