In the Great Hall

Date1990

Maker Jeffry Mitchell American, born 1958

Label TextAsked about sources of influence for this hall, Jeffry Mitchell remembers "the fictitious French paper architect Boullee, an Ensor etching of a cathedral interior with a suspended basket of burning corpses, and the famous painting of Charles Wilson Peale pulling a curtain back to reveal a natural history museum." This watercolor was part of his planning for an installation in 1990 that emulated "the great hall in my mind. I always love architectural drawings and plans and the posture of architecture- arrogant-genius-macho-utopian-gloriously flawed."

Object number91.10

Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, "Fresh Impressionism" June 19, 2008 - September 21, 2008 (6/19/2008 - 9/21/2008)

Credit LineGift of the Virginia Wright Fund

DimensionsComp. h. (Comp. h.): 38in. (96.5cm) Frame h. (Frame h.): 52 1/4in. (132.7cm) Comp. w. (Comp. w.): 25in. (63.5cm) Frame w. (Frame w.): 36 3/4in. (93.4cm)

MediumWatercolor on paper