Volume 53 · 583
Public Law 76–77
To authorize the painting of the signing of the Constitution for placement in the Capitol Building.
Approved April 20, 1939
Statutory text
JOINT RESOLUTION
To authorize the painting of the signing of the Constitution for placement in the Capitol Building.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That a commission consisting
Capitol Building.
Painting of signing of Constitution authorized for placement in.
Post, p. 981.
of the Vice President of the United States, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and the Architect of the Capitol be, and is hereby, created and authorized and directed to employ an artist to paint upon canvas (approximately twenty feet by thirty feet in size), at a price not exceeding $30,000, a painting of the scene
Price limitation.
at the signing of the Constitution. The said painting shall be subject to the approval of the Joint Committee on the Library, and, when so approved, shall be mounted in a space in the Capitol Building to be selected by the commission. The commission shall consult the Commission of Fine Arts and any suggestion for such suitable painting by any artist shall be considered by the Commission.
Approved, April 20, 1939.