Drawing, Study for a Proposed Mural for the Ballroom of the Hotel Pierre, New York

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Drawing, Study for a Proposed Mural for the Ballroom of the Hotel Pierre, New York

This is a Drawing. It was created by Griffiths Baily Coale and designed by Griffiths Baily Coale. It is dated 1930 and we acquired it in 1962. Its medium is brush and watercolor, graphite on paperboard. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Mrs. Griffith Baily Coale. It is credited Gift of Mrs. Griffith Baily Coale.

Drawing of a roof garden. The image is angled up toward the ceiling, so that the well-dressed patrons at the bottom of the image are mostly seen from the shoulders up. The men wear tuxedos and the women ball gowns. The walls have large, vertically-rectangular windows that extend from floor to ceiling. A floral pattern with dark green background and curvacious pink, orange, and red plants extends from the top of the walls all the way onto the ceiling. Two rows of windows extend the length of the ceiling, from one side of the room to another. A row of the aforementioned floral pattern extends across the middle of the ceiling, separating the two rows of windows.

Drawing, Design for Roof Garden, Hotel Gibson, Cincinnati, OH
pen and black ink, brush and watercolor, white gouache, gold paint, graphite....
Museum purchase through gift of Carola Walton in memory of her mother Dorothy....
1990-126-1

Its dimensions are

70.8 x 55 cm (27 7/8 x 21 5/8 in.)

It is signed

Signed in graphite with initials, lower left: G.B.C.-1930

It is inscribed

Inscribed in graphite, lower left Shultze and Weaver Archts.; lower right: Sketch for large ballroom - Hotel Pierre - Glass - metal - tile - cloth and 20 mural-panels

Cite this object as

Drawing, Study for a Proposed Mural for the Ballroom of the Hotel Pierre, New York; Griffiths Baily Coale (American, 1890–1950); USA; brush and watercolor, graphite on paperboard; 70.8 x 55 cm (27 7/8 x 21 5/8 in.); Gift of Mrs. Griffith Baily Coale; 1962-135-20

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/2CvUr/
Accession Number 1962-135-20
Object ID 18441125