Building sale has artist's family worried about mural

The Dispatch wrote Building sale leaves artist’s family worried about fate of 1960 mural
Thursday, September 11, 2008
BY KATHY LYNN GRAY
Sara Carr’s children have hundreds of her impressionistic landscapes and pen-and-ink portraits, but they would like to add another painting to the collection: a 25-foot-wide mural hanging Downtown in the Trautman Building.
“I don’t know that we actually have any claim to it,” said Pickerington resident Cherie Koch, 64, the youngest of Carr’s five children. “But we absolutely want to save it.”
In 1960, Carr spent months painting the panoramic cityscape from the roof of the five-story office building at the request of its owner, Warner Trautman. She had an art studio in the building — in the 200 block of S. High Street — and painted the mural in exchange for the use of a rural cottage owned by Trautman.