Once ubiquitous, particularly along the Red Line, the work of the District’s most legendary graffiti artist is rather more difficult to find around town these days. But soon two of Cool “Disco” Dan’s tags will have a prominent new home: the John. A Wilson Building.

The local legend, whose real name was Danny Hogg, died a year ago at 47 of complications from diabetes.

“We have learned from graffiti artists that we have to celebrate art in every form, and we have to find artists where they are and invest in their art so that many generations of people can share it,” Mayor Muriel Bowser said last year at a memorial for Cool “Disco” Dan.

Two of Hogg’s works will be installed in early September in the seat of city’s local government, the D.C. Council announced on Thursday. They will likely go in a corner of the ground floor atrium that most closely resembles where the pieces originally appeared.

“There’s painted brick there, so it looks a bit more industrial, so the Cool “Disco” Dan stuff will be a better fit there. Less wedding cake-y (and I use that term affectionately) than other ceremonial spots in the building,” D.C. Council communications director Josh Gibson says via email.

One of the works, which was originally spray painted in the H Street corridor, appeared in the 2013 Corcoran exhibit Pump Me Up: D.C. Subculture of the 1980s. After the Corcoran’s closure, its holdings were donated to the National Gallery of Art and other institutions around the city. The Cool “Disco” Dan piece is now owned by American University (which holds the license to WAMU, DCist’s parent organization), and the school has provided it to the Council in a long-term loan.

The other work that will go on display was given to the D.C. Council, whose staffers located it on an unused railroad signal box off of Puerto Rico Avenue NE along the Red Line, by CSX.

Hogg’s family is supportive of the exhibit, as are Roger Gastman and Joseph Pattisal, friends who made The Legend of Cool ‘Disco’ Dan documentary, according to Gibson.

“Dan fascinated us more and more, year by year, we realized that this was one of the rarest of people: a person who embodied Washington, the real Washington, not federal Washington, but the one where people live, love, grow, and die,” wrote Gastman, Pattisall, and Caleb Neelon, who collaborated on the documentary, in a statement after Hogg’s death. “He was Washington, D.C.—ask anyone who knows.”

Previously:
During Memorial For D.C. Graffiti Legend Cool ‘Disco’ Dan, Mayor Names Day For Him
D.C. Graffiti Artist Cool ‘Disco’ Dan Has Died
Reviewed: The Legend of Cool ‘Disco’ Dan