Mystery painting of Cossitt Library turns up ahead of fall reopening

By , Daily Memphian Updated: May 17, 2021 4:00 AM CT | Published: May 17, 2021 4:00 AM CT

The painting shows the Cossitt Library shortly after or just before its 1958 renovation when the midcentury modern front of the landmark was added. 

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Cossitt Library Keenon McCloy Fourth Bluff Richard Wright

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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.


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