The Old Print Shop

Homage to the City. [triptych in purple.]

  • ARTIST: John Ross

  • MEDIUM: Collagraph,

    DATE: undated.

  • EDITION SIZE: Edition 25. Total size 30 x 66 15/16" (76.2 x 170 cm). Paper size of each sheet 30 x 22 5/16" (76.2 x 56.6 cm).

  • DESCRIPTION: Signed and titled in pencil. Key to "Homage to the City" - 1. Glamis Castle, Scotland; 2. St. Elizabeth, Marburg, Germany; 3. Bell Tower, Santa Maria Del Fiore, Florence: Giotto; 4. Rheims Cathedral, France; 5. Parthenon, Athens: Ictinus and Callicrates; 6. The Propylea, Athens:Mnesicles; 7. The Erechtheion, Athens: Mnesicles; 8. Temple of Eridu, Mesopotamia; 9. Hacilar II, Turkey; 10. Ziggurat at Ur, Mesopotamia; 11. Temple at Thebes, Egypt; 12. Pyramids at Gizeh, Egypt; 13.. Roman Aqueduct; 14. Tower of Babel, Breughel; 15. Colosseum in Rome; 16. Arch of Constantine, Rome; 17. San Marco Cathedral & Campanile, Venice; 18. Ibn Tulun Mosque, Cairo; 19. Suleiman Mosque, Constantinople: Sinan; 20. Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem; 21. Palazzo Vecchio, Florence; 22. Leaning Tower, Pisa; 23. Chateau Chambord, France: Pierre Nepveu; 24. Bridge of Sighs, Venice; 25. Obilisk, Egypt; 26. Cnossos, Crete: Daedalus; 27. Laon Cathedral/Chartres Cathedral, France; 28. San Miniato, Florence; 29. Santa Maria Del Fiore, Florence: Brunelleschi; 30. St. Brasil's, Moscow; 31.Temple of Horus, Edfu, Egypt; 32. Century Bldg., New York: Irwin Chanin; 33. Embarcadero Center, San Francisco: John Portman; 34. Pentagon, Arlington, Virginia; 35. Empire State Building, New York: Shreve, Lamb & Harmon; 36. Chrysler Bldg., New York: William Van Alen; 37. Woolworth Bldg., New York: Cass Gilbert; 38. Bankers Trust Bldg., New York: Trowbridge & Livingston; 39. Flatiron Bldg., New York: Daniel H. Burnham ; 40. Dome: Buckminster Fuller; 41. Ponte Vecchio, Florence; 42. Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco; 43. Citicorp Center, New York: Hugh Stebbins; 44. Sagrada Familia Cathedral, Barcelona: Antonio Gaudi; 45. Elmhurst Gas Tank, Elmhurst, Queens, New York; 46. Water Tower, Suburban New York; 47. House of Birds, Bronx Zoo, New York: Morris Ketchum Assoc.; 48. John Hancock Center, Chicago: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill: 49. Shivering Sands Fort, Whitstable, Kent, England; 50. Four Leaf Tower Condominium, Houston, Texas: Cesar Pelli; 51. AT&T Bldg., New York: Philip Johnson & John Burgee; 52. Eiffel Tower, Paris: Gustave Eiffel; 53. Liao-Ti T’a, K’ai Yuan Temple, Ising-hsien, Hopei, China; 54. Lung Hsing at Chang-ting-hsien, Hopei, China; 55. Great Wall, China; 56. Osaka Castle, Japan; 57. Horiyu-ji Temple, Nara, Japan; 58. Kandariya Temple, Khajuraho, India; 59. Taj-Mahal, India; 60. Ananda Temple, Pagan, Burma; 61. Dalai-Lama Temple, Tibet; 62. Graf Zeppelin; 63. Lower Manhattan Expressway, New York: Paul Rudolph; 64. Stupa, Sanchi, India; 65. Habitat, Montreal: Moshe Safdie; 66. Trans America Bldg., San Francisco: William Pereira; 67. Seagram Bldg., New York: Mies Van der Rohe; 68. 101 Park Ave., New York: Eli Attia; 69. IDS Center, Minneapolis: Johnson & Burgee; 70. Texas Commerce Tower, Houston: I. M. Pei; 71. Richard Daley Center, Chicago: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill; 72. CBS Bldg., New York: Eero Saarinen; 73. Guggenheim Museum, New York: Frank Lloyd Wright; 74. Hyatt Regency Reunion, Dallas: Welton Becket; 75. Sears Tower, Chicago: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.

  • ADDITIONAL INFO: Inscribed "III" and "2/25."

  • CONDITION: Very good condition.

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