-LOBBY MURAL-

The Sir Walter Raleigh and Queen Elizabeth cloak scene mural hung high above the Raleigh Hotel registration office for decades.  Part of the Albert Pick Hotels Corporation chain.

The mural is on permanent loan from Historic Waco to the Taylor Museum of Waco and McLennan County

Here it is on exhibit high on the back wall:

A great effort was undertaken from 1985 to 1991 to salvage, conserve and exhibit this “priceless” mural (see attached articles).

oil on canvas, 6′ x 36′ signed lr “Louis Grell Chicago”

–PURPLE COW SANDWICH SHOP MURALS-

Above article -Waco Tribune-Herald, February 3, 1985 page 42

Six to eleven Purple Cow murals, oil on canvas, likely unsigned

watercolor 12″ x 12″ signed “L. Grell 1944”