Ringling Museum East Entrance Facade
Artist
John H. Phillips
(American, active early 20th century)
Date1928
CultureAmerican
MediumWatercolor and graphite, with traces of gouache and charcoal, on paper
ClassificationPaintings
Provenancearchitectural drawings commissioned by John Ringling, completed 1928; bequest to The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, 1936
Credit LineBequest of John Ringling, 1936
Object numberSN1546.110.31
John Ringling hired New York City-based architect John H. Phillips in 1925 to design his new art museum for Sarasota. By 1928, when Phillips made this sheet, the building was mostly complete, though its first public opening was not until 1930. Here the architect brings the building alive by adding visitors and automobiles, and by placing it indelibly in the local landscape: the varied greens and yellows of the surrounding flora reveals his awareness of the power of native Florida color.
On View
Not on viewCollections
Matt (Window): 16 5/8 × 22 in. (42.2 × 55.9 cm)
Frame: 22 × 28 in. (55.9 × 71.1 cm)
18th century
