November 30, 2011

Today in Art Class


Pacifica. Peter Stackpole, 1938. 

It reminds me of something right out of King Kong – the mood this temporary Goddess emanates. Created in the thirties by Peter Stackpole for the 1939-1940 Golden Gate International Exposition on Treasure Island, the statue - a temporary plaster and steel installment for the Exposition only - stood eighty feet tall and was drenched in white with a hundred foot curtain of star-shaped bangles behind her.

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