FIRST NATIONAL BUILDING.
In 1971, this sprawling downtown office building, designed by Albert Kahn and Wirt Rowland in the Neoclassical style and built between 1921 and 1930, becomes the site of Alvin Loving's Message to Demar and Lauri, downtown Detroit's first, large-scale geometric mural.
The First National hugging its neighbors.
The same year that Message to Demar and Lauri is painted onto a back wall of the First National, a solo show of David Rubello's work, including paintings as large as 4' x 8', inaugurates the building's new art gallery. Before his work is installed, Rubello requests that the gallery's walls be painted black.
See COLOR , EMPIRE BUILDING , JULIAN C MADISON BUILDING , and MESSAGE TO DEMAR AND LAURI