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The Smith Building 289-295 Greenwich Avenue
Ancient Romans left western civilization legacies of law and architectural order. But, as heirs to the legacy of the ancient Greek art of architecture, the Romans also elevated classic architecture to the fine art of engineering. The classic design of The Smith Building, an early twentieth century Neo Classical-influenced work of architecture designed by William J. Smith, references architecture of antique Rome with its alignment of distinguishing fluted modified Doric columns bordering two continuous sides of the structure located at 289-295 Greenwich Avenue.
Tales As Old As Time Modern Egyptian Classics: Cleopatra's Needle,Victor H. Bisharat Architecture and Sol LeWitt Painting Charles A. Platt, Architect Obelisk Greenwich, Connecticut Victor H. Bisharat, Architect GTE Building Stamford, Connecticut Sol Lewitt, Artist| Pyramid Mural The Brooklyn Museum New York, New York Only one part of vast ancient Egyptian funerary complexes composed of religious temples and other geometry-based structures, pyramids were designed in close proximity with Egyptian royal palaces. While popularly associated with the architecture of ancient Egypt, the stylistic influence of the triangular-shaped pyramid (typically four-sided but designs are also known to have eight sides) has traversed the the span of time, and the boundaries of geography, in adaptations of the traditional pyramid form in interdisciplinary works of fine and applied art in design, painting, and architecture.
Remembrance of Mr. Finch and Things Past: The Greenwich Town Historian, the Historic Greenwich Post Office, and “The Packet Sails from Greenwich, 1696” by the Muralist Victoria Ebbels Hutson Huntley
"Remembrance of Mr. Finch and Things Past: The Greenwich Town Historian, the Historic Greenwich Post Office, and “The Packet Sails from Greenwich, 1696” by the Muralist Victoria Ebbels Hutson Huntley" William E. Finch, Greenwich Town Historian Emeritus “The Packet Sails from Greenwich, 1696,” Mural Victoria Ebbels Hutson Huntley, Artist The Historic Greenwich Post Office (1916) Greenwich, Connecticut Fig. 1 “ Greenwich Harbor Aerial View ” by Photographer Unknown, N.d. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Demonstrating a shared thematic devotion to the observation of life in early America, American painters Thomas Hart Benton and Victoria Hutson Huntley articulated the ordinary into a sense of heightened painted narratives containing a kaleidoscopic assortment of newly discovered American frontiers in their works of art. In The American Scene: American Painting of the 1930s, a history of American Modern Art dat...