
This mural was completed by artist Seth Bishop in September 2022. It is located in historic downtown Sevierville, Tennessee on The Pines building at the corner of Court Avenue and Joy Street. The artwork honors its building’s history as a theater by featuring five of the most famous talents who performed on its stage: (from left to right) singer Roy Acuff, comedian Archie Campbell, superstar Dolly Parton (where 10-year-old Dolly first performed in front of a paying audience on the Cas Walker Farm and Home Tour radio show in 1956), singer-songwriter June Carter Cash, and musician Chet Atkins.
Though the painting was completed in about 12 days, “these things seem to take a year from the conception of the idea to completion,” says Seth Bishop, mural artist. “The original concept was to have several different performers all on stage together, but with such a long list of people it wasn’t going to work to do an image from the audience view. In the best-case scenario, those people would have been life-size, but when painting a face on a brick surface from that distance they wouldn’t be recognizable—that wasn’t going to work!” To fit larger-than-life images into the planned space, the list of potential stars to include was narrowed down from more than a dozen to the five most recognizable and influential. Bishop searched the Internet for pictures of each performer at the age that they were when performing at The Pines Theater. Once he finalized the lineup and composition, he worked on style, images, and colors. When the specific location on the wall was finalized, a bit more space was available than originally anticipated, so Bishop was able to expand the original design and complete the mural seen above.
visitsevierville.com/The-Pines-Mural.aspx
Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D7200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
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