The right side of the Dale Case mural depicts private Hendrix's war exploits.  The center of the mural shows President Truman awarding the Congressional Medal of Honor to Jimmy, at the time, the youngest man ever to receive the award.  The left side of the mural shows scenes typical of the Lepanto area at the time of the second world war.

When I spoke with Dale Case on the phone, he pointed out the consistent use of baroque conventions in this work.  For instance there is a tree in the battle scene balancing the tree on the Lepanto side.  There is a road on the left that balances a road on the right.  The smoke from the burning jeep balances the smoke curling from the stacks of the riverboat.  The halftrack balances the riverboat, the jeep balances the log cabin, the train of captured Germans balances the team of mules hauling logs (a thematic reflection as well as a visual one).

He also said that it was a very baroque thing to do to break the plane of the picture, intruding the scene into the viewer's world.  He achieves this effect on one side with the dead German's arm hanging out of the frame and on the other side with the cotton plants bulging past the edge of the painting.

This advertisement for the Terrapin Derby event across the top of this building was painted in 1995. It is also the work of Dale Case.

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