Oil paint on brick and cement, 8,970 square feet
Commissioned by Citywalls, Inc., New York
Executed by Van Wagner Outdoor Advertising, New York City, New York
The cast iron wall of the front of this building is repeated in the mural on its east wall. The mural also incorporates two pre-existing windows and features a cat painted into another window. This was the first outdoor mural completed by the artist and was coordinated by Doris Freedman, the director of Citywalls, who was instrumental in launching many of the artist's early projects.
Oil paint on brick, 6000 square feet
Commissioned by Consolidated Edison
Coordinated by Citywalls, Inc. (New York, NY)
Executed by Seaboard Outdoor Advertising (New York, NY)
Trompe l'oeil facades and a view of the nearby Brooklyn Bridge, appropriate to early nineteenth century New York, cover the south wall of this Con-Ed substation.
Oil paint, 6800 square feet
Commissioned by the Boston Architectural Center with private grant assistance
Supervised by Citywalls, Inc. (New York, NY)
Executed by Seaboard Outdoor Advertising (New York, NY)
Commissioned by the director of the Boston Architectural Center, Peter Blake, this mural was the first to be "carved" into a wall in order to reveal imaginary interiors. It was intended to simulate an eighteenth-century architectural drawing.
Keim silicate paint, 1800 square feet
Executed by Evergreene Painting Studios, New York
The mural, which is painted on three sides of an eighteen-floor apartment house, follows the color and lines of the finished front facade and reflects Louis Sullivan's decorative style.
Keim silicate paint, 4500 square feet
Commissioned by Lloyd Insurance Company and the City of Munich
Coordinated by Galerie Biederman, Munich
This facade not only wraps around the front of the building but also creates a "porch" that looks into a hidden courtyard with a small "garage," whose open door provides a glimpse of a 1932 model of a Mercedes Benz.
Keim silicate paint, 110,000 square feet
Commissioned by Edison Brothers, Inc., St. Louis
Executed by Evergreene Painting Studios, New York
This is a three-sided mural with eight obelisks at its corners, a painted sculpture of Peace on the west facade, and a painted equestrian statue of St. Louis on the south facade.
Keim silicate paint, 14,000 square feet
Commissioned by the Oregon Historical Society
Architect: Zimmer Gunsel Frasca Partnership
Executed by American Illusion, New York
The west face of this multi-part mural, painted on four sides of a six-sided building depicts four, thirty-feet-high participants of the Lewis and Clark Expedition of 104-05. The south face bears a trompe l'oil freize of the Oregon Trail and the John Jacob Astor fur trade.
Keim silicate paint on cement, 4500 square feet
Commissioned Sundance Square Development Corporation
Executed by Jonathan Williams, Los Angeles, CA
Here the artist created a faux sculptural relief depicting an 1860s cattle drive through downtown Fort Worth, when the Chisholm Trail traversed this site.
Keim silicate paint on brick, 19,200 square feet
Commissioned by the Muss Corporation
Executed by American Illusion, New York
The large Art Deco "Arc de Triomphe" offers a view onto the original Fountainebleau Hilton Hotel, designed by Morris Lapidus, and is "lit" by two sixty-five feet high grand lamps in the form of caryatids.
This building is adjacent to the house where Abraham Lincoln died and opposite Ford's Theater where he was shot. The mural on the building's south side depicts Lincoln as a young man, while the painting on the north side was to show him as president. Only the south side was completed before the Department of the Interior halted the project.
Keim silicate paint on brick, 4200 square feet
Commissioned by Windsor Buildings Associates
Executed by American Illusion, New York
This mall wall on a side street in Boston contained thirty-three diamond-shaped ties-rods, which were incorporated into the mural depicting a building under construction.
Executed by Evergreene studios with funding from the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust. Originally the Fulton Theatre, it was renamed the Byham Theatre in 1995.
Keim silicate paint on cement, 14,000 square feet
Commissioned by the City of Yonkers, Office of Downtown Waterfront Development
Executed by Evergreen Painting Studios, New York
These three murals, painted on three buildings in downtown Yonkers, depict figures from and episodes in the history of Yonkers: Native Americans, Dutch settlers, an eighteenth-century English village, and late nineteenth-century industrialism.
3440 E. Roeser Road, Phoenix, AZ
Keim silicate paint on cement, 8000 square feet
Commissioned by Fred Nachman III, owner
Executed by American Illusion, New York
This "tilt up" building was partly shaped on the ground - cement was poured and the building walls were tilted up and joined - in order to support the artwork it bears, a painting of a turn of the century fire station.
Keim silicate paint, 15,000 square feet
Privately commissioned
Executed by Evergreene Painting Studios, New York
The five-floor corner office building was transformed into a labyrinth of arched openings that contain a "figure" of William Penn, painted to scale after his portrait at the city hall, and a view of a scull rower, appropriated from Thomas Eakins' painting Max Schmitt in a Single Scull.
Keim silicate paint, murals range in size from 400 to 3, 500 square feet
Commissioned by the City of Huntsville with grants from the Meadows Foundation,
the National Endowment for the Arts, and the State of Texas
Executed by American Illusion, New York, and Thomas Street Studios, Providence, Rhode Island.
This project consists of thirteen buildings that have been painted on, or improved upon through restoration, over a ten-year period. The artist, in collaboration with architect Kim Williams of Austin, Texas, and under the direction of Linda Pease of the City of Huntsville, has created a faux ruin and restored and embellished two theater facades, a county courthouse, a prison museum, and multiple store fronts.
This project consisted of 14 murals executed over a thirty year period by matching funds from the Village of Homewood and executed by Thomas Melvin.
Keim on masonry (exterior)
This very large project on the former Board of Education building in downtown Brooklyn was completed in the Spring of 2007.