Mural, mural, on the wall

From an homage to Frank Duveneck to an original C.F. Payne to the spoils of a TED prize, MuralWorks by ArtWorks brightens more than city walls.

This week, we tour of a few of the finest with Soapbox photographer Scott Beseler.

At the Banks, artist Tim Parsley delivers a fresh take on Duveneck’s The Cobbler’s Apprentice, on display at the Taft Museum of Art. Just north of that on Central Parkway, C.F. Payne’s The Singing Mural is the biggest ArtWorks mural ever, says Sarah Corlett.

This summer, one of the newest elements of MuralWorks disappears just as the final murals debut. The larger-than-life size photographs of ArtWorks teen artists’s faces, which have adorned wooden planks surrounding mural scaffolding, acted as part of street artist JR’s Inside Out international art project. JR, who won this year’s TED prize, launched the global art project with his winnings.