Tarrant County Civil Courthouse Annex murals

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Artist/Creator (1)	Haas, Richard (born 1936)
Artist/Creator (1).Nationality	American
Artist/Creator (1).Role	artist, painter
Title/Caption	Tarrant County Civil Courthouse Annex murals
Larger Work/Entity	Tarrant County Civil Courthouse Annex
Site/Creative Center	Fort Worth, Texas (United States)
Date of Work	1988
Description of View	Oblique general view of building showing trompe l'oeil painting of figure of Justice holding scales
Notes	Project Location: 100 N. Houston, Fort Worth, TX. Sponsor/Developer: Sid Richardson Foundation and Tarrant County. Project Description: As a tribute to the architectural grandeur of an adjacent sandstone courthouse, the artist created a trompe l'oeil mural on all visible exterior surfaces of a 1950's annex attached to it. The impressive magnitude of this project was in direct response to the building this mural hides. The annex building has always been unpopular among architecture critics and the general public. It has been described as resembling a large electrical appliance with vertical louvers extending from the ground floor to the roof. Its design clashed with the old courthouse from the beginning. Project architect George Woo developed a prefabricated panel system built out from the exterior walls, to which window openings were cut. The decorative design of the mural includes pilasters, spandrels, keystones and cornices, all shaded to provide a highly realistic feeling of carved stone masonry. The casual observer will believe that this building was from the last century, rather than the 1950's. Project History: This project is one of three Richard Haas has done in Fort Worth, Texas, for businessman Sid Bass. Bass's family runs the Sid Richardson Foundation, which funded this project.
Technique/Process	painting
Dimensions	murals on the exterior walls of a 60,000 square ft. building
Century	20th Century
Subject	Painting, American Painting, 20th Century Public art Mural paintings (visual works) Street art Trompe-l'oeil Architecture Figures, human Personification Balances (scales)
Publisher	ART on FILE
Publisher.Location	ART on FILE. 1837 East Shelby St. Seattle, Washington 98112 (United States). www.artonfile.com
Set/Project Title	New Directions in Public Art: Part IV
Reference Number	Art on File PAIV-14(3)-3
Collection Title	Painting (Art and Art History Department images)
Collection Information	Collection administered by Visual Resources manager, Architecture Library (402) 472-1193
Copyright Information	http://contentdm.unl.edu/ah_copyright.html

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