To finish our day of Thomas Watson Ball... Chinese Twilight, Oil on canvas, a gift of the Trustees and Director in honor of Tony and Sandy Thurston for their lasting devotion to the Florence Griswold Museum. The painting replicates the painted panel that Ball contributed to the historic Florence Griswold House dining room (shown earlier today). Ball painted sailing ships other than Chinese junks and created for them an effective illusion of three-dimensionality, but he chose to paint a flat composition with the silhouette of a sailing vessel in these two works. Note the painting in the photo of Miss Florence in the center hallway. The small painting above her is most likely by Ball.
Posted on: Sun, 27 Apr 2014 00:10:00 +0000
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