Philip Hanson
American, born 1943
Head-Pavilion IV
INV-1958
Philip Hanson
American, born 1943April 1967
Head-Pavilion IV
Philip Hanson American, born 1943 →etchingpaper
Date
April 1967
Medium
Etching and aquatint, with hand-coloring in watercolor, on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image/plate: 19.9 × 14.4 cm (7 7/8 × 5 11/16 in.); Sheet: 22.8 × 18.9 cm (9 × 7 1/2 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Through prior bequest of Vera Berdich
All of the Head Pavilion etchings incorporate the theatrical staging and fantastical architecture seen in Philip Hanson’s later Pavilion Park series. This print, Head Pavilion IV, visually references Pablo Picasso’s sculpture in Chicago’s Daley Plaza, which was dedicated in August 1967. The Art Institute acquired a small study of Picasso’s sculpture in 1966, which Hanson and other students may have seen in the museum.
The dark, heavy use of aquatint in Head Pavilion IV adds a somber and formal dimension to the pavilion series and grounds the structure in space. Solidified and monumental, Head Pavilion IV evokes a temple or the site of a ceremony, with smaller accompanying pavilions issuing trails of smoke.
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