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Five Points in 1948

Artists Blue Sky

(Formerly) Harper's Restaurant
700 Harden St
Columbia, SC 29205

Year Installed 1990

Type of Art Mural

Themes Commemorative Art, Privately Commissioned

Neighborhoods Five Points

Acknowledgements

  • Harpers Restaurant
The mural on the north side of this building was commissioned by Harper's Restaurant in 1990. The artist Blue Sky completed the 14x60 foot mural in the summer of 1991. The painting depicts Five Points as it might have appeared from a vantage point halfway up Devine Street hill. The restaurant now sits where the white stucco Gulf Station was in the year 1948; known to most as the old Harper's Restaurant. The black 1941 Dodge on the extreme right end of the picture belonged to the artist's cousin Eugene Elison Fetner - Inventor, photographer and a true gentleman (1929-1990). Gene taught Sky how to draw at age six. This painting is dedicated to his memory. This mural is located on an exterior wall of (formally) Harper's Restaurant in Five Points. The 14' by 60' mural illustrates Five Points, circa 1948 from a vantage point halfway up the Devine Street hill. The mural was dedicated to Sky's artistic cousin, Eugene Ellison Fetner, inventor and photographer who taught Sky how to draw at the age of six. -BlueSkyArt.com

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