Highlights
Artist
Allyn Cox
EverGreene Painting Studios
Medium
Oil on Canvas
Year
1994
The map shows the first thirteen colonies and the year in which each entered the Union. The original Northwest territories, the Connecticut Reserve, and Spanish and West Florida are also shown. Beside the motto "Join or Die" is a snake segmented into thirteen parts, each labeled with the abbreviation of a state, copied from a colonial block print.
The corner motifs are sugar cane and tobacco plants, which were the prominent export crops at this time.
About the Cox Corridors Murals
The first floor of the U.S. Capitol's House wing is elaborately decorated with wall and ceiling murals by artist Allyn Cox. The western north-south corridor, called the Westward Expansion corridor, includes maps and scenes showing the growth of the United States from early exploration through the acquisition of Alaska and Hawaii.