Tag: beaux-arts
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October 10, 2014 at 04:37PM
Lunchtime drawing: The top corner of the Beaux-Arts building at 1261 Madison Avenue, designed by Buchanan and Fox, and completed in 1901. from Nick’s Lunchbox Service on Tumblr http://ift.tt/1EEwnIX via IFTTT
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September 30, 2014 at 08:09PM
Later than lunchtime drawing: The American Irish Historical Society’s Beaux-Arts townhouse on Fifth Avenue, illuminated by The Metropolitan Museum of Art signs lining the street (each in a different language). from Nick’s Lunchbox Service on Tumblr http://ift.tt/ZpBLQ2 via IFTTT
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September 08, 2014 at 09:05PM
Later than lunchtime drawing: The quite ornate facade, complete with two marble figures on either side of the entrance, on East 82nd Street of the Benjamin N. and Sarah Duke House. This Beaux Arts building is officially located at 1009 Fifth Avenue, was completed in 1901, and is perhaps the last remaining private mansion on…
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August 22, 2014 at 09:03PM
Later than lunchtime drawing: Patience outside the New York Public Library on Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, a marble lion who’s nickname came from Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia during the Great Depression, because New Yorkers needed that quality (and fortitude too, the name of the other lion). from Nick’s Lunchbox Service on Tumblr http://ift.tt/1AFGytL via IFTTT
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Waiting in long post office line drawing: At the Beaux-Arts James A. Farley Post Office by Penn Station in New York, sending out archival prints of my art. Interesting from Wikipedia: Built in 1912, the building is famous for bearing the inscription: “Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers…