Grace Lincoln Temple
Temple was one of the first women to decorate a public U.S. building. She was charged with decorating the rotunda of the Smithsonian. Temple also was hired to work on the Women’s Building at the Atlanta Exposition in 1895 and the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in 1904. She was an authority on Colonial wallpaper, earned a degree from the Art Museum School in Boston, and taught art in Cleveland. After moving to Washington, D.C., she was employed by politicians to redecorate their homes. Senators hired her, as did the President Grover Cleveland and the First Lady to decorate their Princeton home.
We have 137 objects that Grace Lincoln Temple has been involved with.
![This sidewall print has an all-sky and cloudscape with two airplanes flying through. The pattern is repeated only twice, so the plane and cloud formation is identical halfway. The print has a realistic illustrative style but little contrast as it is duo-chrome light blue and cream, with mostly cream clouds filling up the sky and hints of light blue showing through in various gradients. The two planes are also drawn with little contrast, making them and their shadows almost blend into the clouds. The planes are angled diagonally flying away from below the viewer, with one wing across the top and propeller spinning in a circle on the front body. The two wings have American flags on either tip, while the side reads [Spirit of America.] On the tail are hints of numbers and letters indicating the plane's model, illegible. Below the plane is a half silhouette shadow.](https://images.collection.cooperhewitt.org/292520_49485201d296b934_n.jpg "Sidewall, The Lindbergh")
