In the Great Hall
1990
Asked 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."
Watercolor on paper
Comp. 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)
Gift of the Virginia Wright Fund
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