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Mary DeWitt Painting
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Politico Cafe, Philadelphia City Hall, 1990, narrative on the ceiling mural: State Corrrectional Institutions for Women are Geographically Isolated, Mothers are too Faraway",

In the early 1990's the prisoners at Holmesburg Prison and I painted murals. While the prison was demolished in 1995, here in the prisoner cafeteria, we painted huge portraits with narrative quoting the luminaries Marcus Garvey, Malcolm X and Albert Einstein.



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