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Joyce KozloffTopkapi Pullman (based on Mural for Lobby, Suburban Train Station, Philadelphia)1985
1985
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About the Item
Joyce Kozloff
Topkapi Pullman, 1985
Watercolor and acrylic on paper (bears original gallery labels: Barbara Gladstone Gallery, Gallery Camino Real, Boston University Art Gallery)
Signed, and inscribed: "Mural for Lobby, Suburban Train Station, Philadelphia, to be executed in glass mosaic, 2"=1', Joyce Kozloff 1985."
Frame included: floated and framed in hand made wood museum frame with UV plexiglass
Measurements:
Frame:
27 x 33 x 1 inch
Artwork:
23.5 x 30 inches
This showstopping, unique watercolor and acrylic work on paper is based upon of one of two mosaic panels for the Suburban Station, an art deco office building and underground commuter rail station in Penn Center, Philadelphia. It features elaborate floral and geometric motifs. According to published materials accompanying the Boston University Art Gallery exhibition, "Opposite the Penn mosaic stands “Topkapi Pullman,” paying tribute to Philadelphia’s role as a transportation and mercantile center. From inside Istanbul’s Topkapi Palace, tiled with elaborate floral and geometric motifs, a doorway opens up onto a massive, foreshortened locomotive speeding through a streamlined Precisionist space. The Art Deco train is modeled on Fix Masseau’s iconic 1929 Orient Express poster. It evokes the romanticism of train travel, and plays on its symbolism in 1930s movies, where it was a metaphor for sex, power and glamour. Above is the logo of the Pennsylvania
railroad, and below its motto, “The Standard Railroad of the World.”
(Regional commuters in the 1930s might have fantasized that they were
traveling on the luxurious Orient Express to Istanbul.) Bridging decoration and
illusion, the style and imagery acknowledge both fine and applied arts
traditions,
Kozloff has taken on many public commissions throughout her career.
The present work is signed, dated and inscribed on lower right recto in pencil: "Mural for Lobby, Suburban Train Station, Philadelphia, to be executed in glass mosaic, 2"=1', Joyce Kozloff 1985."
Three gallery labels on verso:
Barbara Gladstone Gallery
Gallery Camino Real
Boston University Art Gallery
Below is an excerpt from a transcript of Kozloff discussing the design and conceptual elements of the public mosaic work that the present work is a study of:
Joyce Kozloff: Suburban Station, Philadelphia
“Galla Placidia in Philadelphia” and “Topkapi Pullman,” 1 Penn Center at
Suburban Station, Philadelphia, PA, Richard I. Rubin & Co., Developer;
Francis, Cauffman, Wilkinson and Pepper, Philadelphia, Architects; fabricated
by Travisanutto Mosaics, Spilimbergo, IT; photos Eugene Mopsik
Two mosaic panels integrate local history with early moments in the history of
Western art. In “Galla Placidia in Philadelphia,” William Penn stands on a
schematic hillside, holding the scrolled charter to the commonwealth of
Pennsylvania. He functions as an historical referent and schematic visual
symbol, for his silhouette is the primary civic icon of the city. Penn is set into an
ornate architectural ensemble based on the mausoleum of Galla Placidia in
Ravenna. Although the wall surface is only slightly convex, the impression is of
a lunette set deeply into one of the arms of a chapel’s Greek cross floor plan.
Flat, ornamented archivolts outline this illusionistic space and separate it from a
two-dimensional starry night abstracted from the patterned constellations on the
ceiling in Ravenna. Penn replaces the Christian saints at Galla Placidia, but the
forms of their attributes remain, so he is shielded by the protective canopy of
Early Byzantine art, but the flames of maryrdom which encircle his feet are
now de-contextualized, retained for their decorative effect.
Opposite the Penn mosaic stands “Topkapi Pullman,” paying tribute to
Philadelphia’s role as a transportation and mercantile center. From inside
Istanbul’s Topkapi Palace, tiled with elaborate floral and geometric motifs, a
doorway opens up onto a massive, foreshortened locomotive speeding through
a streamlined Precisionist space. The Art Deco train is modeled on Fix Masseau’s iconic 1929 Orient Express poster. It evokes the romanticism of
train travel, and plays on its symbolism in 1930s movies, where it was a
metaphor for sex, power and glamour. Above is the logo of the Pennsylvania
railroad, and below its motto, “The Standard Railroad of the World.”
(Regional commuters in the 1930s might have fantasized that they were
traveling on the luxurious Orient Express to Istanbul.) Bridging decoration and
illusion, the style and imagery acknowledge both fine and applied arts
traditions, signifying the artist’s intention to break down the barriers between
them.
Text excerpted from Pat Johnston, Joyce Kozloff: Visionary Ornament. Boston,
MA: Boston University, 1985.
Very good condition with no apparent issues; floated in elegant hand made white wood frame with museum plexiglass
- Creator:Joyce Kozloff (1942, American)
- Creation Year:1985
- Dimensions:Height: 27 in (68.58 cm)Width: 33 in (83.82 cm)Depth: 1 in (2.54 cm)
- Medium:
- Movement & Style:
- Period:
- Condition:Very good condition with no apparent issues; floated in elegant hand made white wood frame with museum plexiglass.
- Gallery Location:New York, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1745213024842
Joyce Kozloff
Born December 14, 1942, Somerville, NJ Public Collections
Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, NY
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH
Ball State University Art Gallery, Muncie, IN
Bartlett Center for Visual Arts, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Carnegie Mellon University Libraries, Pittsburgh, PA
Casa de las Americas, Havana, Cuba
College of Wooster Art Museum, Wooster, OH
Davis Museum & Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San
Francisco, CA
Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE
Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, PA
Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
Grey Gallery, New York University, New York, NY
Grinnell College Art Gallery, Grinnell, IA
Hawaii Art in Public Places program, purchased by Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and
the Arts
Harvard University, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA
Hebrew Union College Museum, Jewish Institute of Religion, New York, NY
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ
The Jewish Museum, NY
John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
Joslyn Museum, Omaha, NE
Library of Congress, Washington, DC
List Gallery, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
Ludwig Forum for International Art, Aachen, DE
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC
Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, MA
Municipal Gallery and Museum of Modern Art, Udine, IT
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
National Academy Museum, New York, NY
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM
New York Public Library, New York, NY
Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University, Logan, UT
Norton Gallery of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
Palmer Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI
Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont, CA
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA
Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO
Stanley Museum of Art, University of Iowa, Iowa City IA
Trout Gallery, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA
University Art Gallery, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM
University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
University of California Santa Barbara Library, Judith A. Hoffberg Archive, Santa Barbara,
CA
Weatherspoon Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Yale University Art Museum, New Haven, CT
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