Showing posts with label Walls. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Walls. Show all posts

Thursday, March 5, 2009

1958 - The second in an occasional series about walls

Painted in 1958 by American artist William Hankinson in what the owner, Earl Blackwell, describes as a Venetian style. Mr. Blackwell, born in Atlanta, said that in his estimation fewer than three ballrooms were extant in New York and his was one of them. He was not sure how wide the room was but he knew it to be fifty feet long and twenty seven feet high.

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

1971 - The first of an occasional series about walls

What happened to the wall as a piece of art? Or the ceiling, for that matter ...