Buildings, Hartford, Connecticut
ArtistDrawn by
Richard Welling
American, 1926 - 2009
Date1989
MediumDrawing; black ink and pencil on paper
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (image height x width): 13 5/8 x 23 3/4in. (34.6 x 60.3cm)
Sheet (height x width): 13 5/8 x 23 3/4in. (34.6 x 60.3cm)
Sheet (height x width): 13 5/8 x 23 3/4in. (34.6 x 60.3cm)
ClassificationsGraphics
Credit LineGift of the Richard Welling Family
DescriptionDrawing of downtown Hartford, Connecticut. From left to right, the buildings depicted are One Corporate Center ("Stilts Building"), State House Square, 280 Trumbull Street, 221 Trumbull Street (Hartford 21), City Place, and Goodwin Square. The portion that shows Goodwin Square was added later; underneath it is a drawing of the unfinished building. In the foreground is a parking lot with several leafless trees in it.
Object number2012.284.5682
MarkingsVersos of the three sheets of paper that make up the drawing, stamped in gray ink: "The Estate of / RICHARD / WELLING" [in box]InscribedRecto, top right, handwritten in pencil: "3/16 x 25 / 16 75 [in box] 4 11/16"Top right of additional sheet taped on top of main one, handwritten in black inK: "#2- 3-7"
Bottom left, handwritten in black ink: "3-26-89 / SUNDAY [underlined] / EASTER / 1:15+ 1 ["1" is circled] [underlined] / 3-27 MON-3/4 / 3-28-TUE-2 1/2 (4 1/4 RS) / 3-29-WED -2"
Bottom right, handwritten in pencil: "(12x16 PRINT SIZE) 65%=14"X7 1/4"
Bottom right, handwritten in pencil: "(21 5/8 x 11 1/4)"
Perspective guidelines across the recto
Subject Terms
- Hartford (Conn.)
- One Corporate Center (Hartford, Conn.)
- State House Square (Hartford, Conn.)
- 280 Trumbull Street (Hartford, Conn.)
- Trumbull Street (Hartford, Conn.)
- City Place (Hartford, Conn.)
- Goodwin Square (Hartford, Conn.)
- Buildings
- Automobiles
- Trees
- Drawings
- Graphics Cataloging
- Richard Welling Collection
- Hartford
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- Richard Welling Collection
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Richard Welling
1981-1984
