Pavilion Park

Description

In his Pavilion Park etchings, Philip Hanson gave free rein to his surreal architectural anthropomorphization. These forms, particularly the small freestanding obelisks, recall the sculptures of Chicago artist H. C. Westermann. Pavilion Park’s buildings are filled with boisterous, slightly menacing energy. The smooth white pavilion parapets and facades recall adobe Mission-Style buildings from the American West. Hiding behind the facades are mountainous congregations of pyramids emitting sparks of light. The energy and movement in Pavilion Park is electric, illuminating and bringing Hanson’s buildings to life.

Pavilion Park

Philip Hanson

Summer 1968

Accession Number

195856

Medium

Etching, with hand-coloring in watercolor, on ivory wove paper

Dimensions

Image/plate: 27.8 × 21.4 cm (11 × 8 7/16 in.); Sheet: 35.5 × 28.2 cm (14 × 11 1/8 in.)

Classification

etching

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Through prior bequest of Vera Berdich