Beneath it, there's an array of paintings, models and carvings, all with a little panel explaining the artist's story.
Now, 175 years later, Union College is again making sure the Erie Canal is not forgotten with an ambitious retrospective of survey and engineering drawings, paintings, models and pottery at its campus in downtown Schenectady through Oct. 29.
First things first: the show's curators, Jean-Louis Cohaveand Barry Bergdoll, have marshaled hundreds of drawings, watercolors, paintings, models and films, a cornucopia gleaned to a large extent from the Fondation Le Corbusier.
A prime example is the 1965 portrait of Alexander Calder in his studio in Connecticut — he was a visitor to the East End — which shows the artist surrounded by a mess of paintings, models and mobiles, along with bits and pieces of artworks-in-progress hanging from diagonal rows of string attached to the ceiling.
The Pixar Living Archive includes sketches, paintings, models, and toys, and not all of the toys are recognizable either.
To investigate the in vivo activity of SFA on DC migration we used the FITC-skin-painting model [28].
His seafood restaurant occupies a cozy storefront space eclectically decorated with oil paintings and model schooners.
Some of the activities, for children 2 to 5, will include a Passover art workshop, to make matzo covers and sponge paintings; a model matzo bakery, where they can make their own matzo; and a Hebrew Passover concert for little ones and adults, from the group Bilingual Birdies.
Before too long his collection was so large that he needed someplace to display all his paintings and model boats, figureheads and pipes, furniture and other ephemera.
"Paintings and models, slightly scruffy, which I think is important.
