The American Academy in Rome is a place where chosen American scholars and creative artists can spend a year or more in the Eternal City doing special projects and studies. I was a guest there in 1975-1976 using family connections to stay there. While at the Academy, I did numerous works of art including this one, a portrait of one of the inner walls of the open courtyard. The Academy building was designed by the famous American architects McKim, Mead, and White, but it was done in a classical Roman style and looks like the ideal world of Rome as interpreted by early 20th-century American architects.
Watercolor over light pencil drawing, 9" x 11", 1976. Click on image for a larger view.
2 comments:
I really love the art you created during this period. The colour palette and fine detail work really pop out.
Beautiful. I like that kind of architecture. Reminds me of a place I used to go at UT to find some peace.
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