Object Details
- Luce Center Label
- Philip C. Curtis often painted buildings, costumes, and objects that evoke the past. The Ticket Office suggests a moment frozen in time, as if a forest had grown around the woman in the booth while she stared dreamily into space. The ornate gold decoration recalls a nineteenth-century theater or circus. It appears abandoned, a remnant of days gone by that was forgotten when everybody else moved on.
- Luce Object Quote
- "I'm questioning so many things that I feel should be questioned about life and what our place as human beings should be or could be. I continue to ask these questions. I don't solve them." The artist, quoted in Philip C. Curtis, An American Original, 1993, video directed by Ken Marsolais, Phoenix Art Museum
- Data Source
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Artist
- Philip C. Curtis, born Jackson, MI 1907-died Scottsdale, AZ 2000
- Date
- 1973
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Bequest of the artist
- Medium
- oil on gesso board
- Dimensions
- 26 x 17 3/4 in. (66.0 x 45.1 cm)
- Type
- Painting
