Campus Quiz

The seven murals in the Wright Quad dining hall depict the history of the University from 1820 to 1998, featuring images ranging from students traveling to class on horseback to former men's basketball coach Bobby Knight. Other sections of the murals show the first Bloomington courthouse, early 20th century football and baseball uniforms, Olympic gold medalist and IU alumnus Mark Spitz and a Dodd's House Little 500 cyclist.\nThe first six murals were painted by artist and visiting instructor Garo Antreasian, according to documents from the IU Archives. Antreasian and his students finished the mural in 1957. The murals were painted in the dining hall, with Antreasian and the students using large scaffolds to paint the canvas panels that were mounted directly on the walls. \nNan Brewer, IU curator of works on paper, said the murals were designed to model the creations of artists like Thomas Hart Benton, who painted the mural in Woodburn Hall. \n"It's taking that idea of a social history in a microcosm of Indiana University," she said. "Benton himself was taking Indiana as a smaller model of the whole United States, so it's a tradition."\nAccording to documents from IU Archives, IU alumnus Mark Flickinger was selected to paint the seventh mural in 1998. Flickinger stuck to tradition and completed the mural in the Wright dining hall on the scaffolding. A committee chose Flickinger from a pool of roughly 200 Indiana artists and IU alumni.