In the papers, and in the files.

Omaha World-Herald

Decades-old mural gets fresh beginning at library

Julie Anderson

Front-page coverage of the April 15 dedication of the mural at the new Omaha Central Library.

Omaha World-Herald

Joslyn Castle event will be about artist Kingman

A preview of A Night With Eugene Kingman at the Joslyn Castle.

Omaha World-Herald

'Plein air' painters captured Nebraska landscapes

Kim Carpenter

A preview of the Gallery 1516 show of Kingman, Augustus Dunbier and Robert Gilder.

Omaha Magazine

Staircase to a Magical Mural

The cornfield Kingman painted up the stairway of the family's Omaha house.

The New York Times

1948-2016: A Times Art Treasure Comes to an Omaha Library

David W. Dunlap

Published the day the restored mural was unveiled at the W. Dale Clark Library.

Omaha World-Herald

After decades at the New York Times building, mural painted in Omaha has a new home

Matthew Hansen

A front-page column on the 2016 unveiling.

Philbrook Magazine

Of Murals and Mesas: The first Philbrook director was all over the map

Mark Brown

The Philbrook looks back at its first director: National Geographic, Mesa Verde and the Times mural.

The New York Times, InSite

1946 | Painted in Omaha; Now Back Home

David W. Dunlap

The Times's own history of the mural, from its lobby on West 43rd Street to its return to Omaha.

Omaha World-Herald

Mural finds its way home

Matthew Hansen

The New York Times mural arrives at the Ford Conservation Center in Omaha in the back of a red pickup truck.

Courier, the National Park Service newsmagazine

The Washington Art Collection: A Park Service Legacy

E. Michael Whittington

On the seven 1931 Paris paintings and where each one hung, or had gone missing, by 1989.

Lubbock Avalanche-Journal

Kingman's Missouri River dam paintings

On his six paintings of the Missouri River dams, made for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

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Omaha World-Herald

Joslyn Staff Says Goodby But Kingmans Ban Farewell Tears

The Joslyn staff says goodbye after his years as director, with a gift of a Robert Gilder painting.

Omaha World-Herald

Ten Mile Road for the Symphony Ball

Kingman gives his painting Ten Mile Road to the Symphony Ball.

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Dundee Sun

Profile of Eugene Kingman

Rosemary Madison

A long profile, quoted in Kingman's Nebraska: "he has never patronized anybody."

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Omaha World-Herald

Corn in Nebraska for General and Mrs. Curtis LeMay

Kingman's Corn in Nebraska is given to General and Mrs. LeMay.

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Omaha World-Herald

A Kingman painting for Milo Bail

Kingman's Davis Farm Scene is commissioned as a retirement gift for Milo Bail.

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Dundee News (Omaha)

Profile of Eugene Kingman

A neighborhood paper profile that credits his RISD mural class with the 1939 World's Fair mural.

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The Providence Journal

Kingman Wins Prize at Art Club

Bradford F. Swan

Winter's End takes the prize at the Providence Art Club's 28th members' exhibition.

Omaha World-Herald

Guess Who

A reader quiz with a photograph of Kingman at three. He liked trains.

The Providence Sunday Journal Magazine

Profile of Eugene Kingman

A hometown profile, including his years teaching mural painting at the Rhode Island School of Design.

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Omaha World-Herald, Centennial Edition

Omaha Waterfront During the 1870's

The paper's centennial edition reproduces the painting it commissioned from Kingman, now at The Durham Museum.

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Omaha World-Herald Magazine

On Kingman's one-man show at the Joslyn

Ted Landale

Known from quotations in Kingman's Nebraska: "But Mr. Kingman's cornfields look like cornfields."

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The Providence Sunday Journal

Paintings by Kingman Exhibited at Art Club

Bradford F. Swan

Swan finds Kingman now fully under the sway of the rolling prairie, and singles out Melting Snows, No. 2.

The Evening Bulletin (Providence)

Eugene Kingman Exhibits 35 Oils at Providence Art Club

Bradford F. Swan

A review of his one-man show of New Hampshire and Nebraska landscapes.

The Evening Bulletin (Providence)

Kingman Ends Work on Mural: Canvas by R.I.-Born Artist Placed in N.Y. Times Building

The hometown paper reports the mural installed in New York.

Omaha World-Herald

Joslyn Director Paints Huge Times Mural

Kingman paints the world map mural for The New York Times lobby in the Joslyn basement, and marks Omaha on it.

Omaha Morning World-Herald

The Kingman family at home

A photograph of Betty and Mixie hanging a painting in their new house on South 56th Street, where all the paintings are his.

Evening World-Herald

In Two Hours, Wallace Puts Joslyn Director on Canvas

J. Laurie Wallace paints Kingman's portrait in a two-hour demonstration for the Associated Artists of Omaha.

Our Sunday Visitor

Eugene Kingman New Director of Joslyn Museum

The board names him director from February 1, 1947, on Paul Grummann's retirement.

Sunday World-Herald

Omahan Keeps Up Her Interest in Indian Art

A profile of Betty Kingman, anthropologist, and her five summers at Mesa Verde, where she met her husband.

The Tulsa Tribune

Kingman Takes Omaha Post

On a visit to Tulsa, Kingman confirms his move to Omaha.

Omaha Morning World-Herald

Joslyn Picks New Officer: Ex-Army Man to Aid Director Grummann

Kingman joins the Joslyn Memorial as assistant director, after making maps for the Joint Chiefs in the OSS map division.

Tulsa Daily World

News and Comment on Art

Maurice De Vinna

A tribute that credits Betty as his constant partner: "Eugene Kingman is not one but two."

Tulsa Daily World

Eugene Kingman Quits Philbrook

His resignation is accepted. Betty will stay on through the end of the year to carry the program.

The Tulsa Tribune

Kingman Goes to Washington

Kingman leaves the Philbrook for a post as associate cartographer in the geographic division of the Office of Strategic Services.

Tulsa Daily World

Kappa Chapter Completes Project

A photograph of Kingman at the lithography press with members of a Tulsa service club.

Tulsa Daily World

Fascinating Art of Etching, Block Prints on Display Here

Welden Barnes

A feature on the Philbrook print room, with a photograph of Kingman at work with an inked roller.

Tulsa Daily World

'Excavation,' a Mural by Eugene Kingman

Kingman will recreate his Kemmerer panel "Excavation" in a public fresco demonstration at the Philbrook.

The Providence Journal

Review of the East Providence post office murals

Frederick R. Sisson

A review of the three East Providence panels: the river, Fort Hill and its industry, and the 1938 hurricane.

The Tulsa Tribune

Philbrook Will Open Its Doors on October 25

Plans for the opening, and the first exhibition of Tulsa artists.

Tulsa World

News and Comment on Art

Maurice De Vinna

The paper's art column on Kingman's plan for the Philbrook as a place for art, history and science.

Tulsa Daily World

Preview of Philbrook Museum Given Tulsans

A front-page photograph of Waite Phillips and the Kingmans inspecting the museum, with a report on the preview for civic leaders.

The Tulsa Tribune

Philbrook Museum Directors Here, Eager to Begin Project

A profile of the newlyweds, who met at Mesa Verde. Kingman hopes the Philbrook will be a place people return to again and again.

Tulsa Daily World

New Englander Chosen Philbrook Museum Head

Malvina Stephenson

Kingman, 30, is named the first director of the Philbrook, with his bride Betty Yelm to assist him.

The Tulsa Tribune

Eugene Kingman, Muralist, Yale Graduate, Named Museum Director

Chosen from 40 prospects, days before his wedding to Mary Elizabeth Yelm. Lists his Yale degrees and his mural for the Rhode Island building at the New York World's Fair.

The Providence Journal

From School of Design to Wyoming Post Office

Frederick R. Sisson

The Kemmerer panels, painted in egg tempera in the RISD mural studio, are finished, and Kingman will drive them west to Wyoming in his station wagon.

Washington Herald

Hyattsville Post Office Hangs a Mural, Without a Single Blast From Critics

The Hyattsville, Maryland post office murals of the rural countryside go up. Kingman tells the paper there are no hidden slogans in them.

The National Geographic Magazine

Crater Lake and Yosemite Through the Ages

Wallace W. Atwood Jr.

A feature illustrated with thirteen of Kingman's geological reconstructions on seven color plates. His name is on the cover.

Daily Inter Lake

Four Paintings by Eugene Kingman to Be Displayed in Park

Four Glacier paintings will hang at the viewpoints they show, with geological diagrams beneath, after showings at the National Parks Association and the American Forestry Association.

The Madisonian

Eugene Kingman Entertains with Pictures

Staying at a dude ranch near Ennis, Montana, Kingman shows his own motion pictures at Nelson Hall and paints a portrait of a local boy.

Great Falls Tribune

Geological Study of Glacier Park Now Being Made

Atwood and Kingman, "artist and Yale student," will spend a month on Glacier's trails. Kingman is to paint the mountain uplift, the Lewis overthrust and the work of the glaciers.

The Evening Derrick

Yale Student's Park Paintings Picked by U.S.

United Press

A wire story from New Haven: seven landscapes painted between classes will hang in the American exhibit in Paris. The same story ran in the Green Bay Press-Gazette (March 31) and the Waterbury Democrat (April 29).

The Providence Journal

Youthful Artist Achieves Honor: Eugene Kingman, 21, Chosen by National Park Service to Paint Seven Pictures

The hometown paper announces the National Park Service commission for the 1931 Paris exposition, awarded after Horace Albright saw his High Sierra paintings.

Roswell Daily Record

Official Party Here Today on Way to Cavern

A party led by Dr. Wallace W. Atwood, on its way to inspect Carlsbad Cavern for President Hoover, passes through Roswell, New Mexico. Eugene Kingman of Providence is among them.