"The View from the Sixth Floor" oil painting by Tansill Stough-Anthony
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"The View from the Sixth Floor" oil painting by Tansill Stough-Anthony
"The View from the Sixth Floor" is an oil painting by Tansill Stough-Anthony in a series titled “Fading Memories: In Honor of JFK”. The painting depicts a black and white image of what President Kennedy's limousine might have looked like through the barrel of a rifle from the perspective of the sniper's perch in the southeast corner window of the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository building. The artist signed the painting in the bottom right corner.
"The View from the Sixth Floor" oil painting by Tansill Stough-Anthony
circa 2010
Oil on canvas
With Frame: 25 7/8 × 37 7/8 × 7/8 in. (65.7 × 96.2 × 2.2 cm)
The "Fading Memories: In Honor of JFK" Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
2018.063.0009
The last painting (to date) in Tansill Stough-Anthony's series, "Fading Memories: In Honor of JFK," this work was directly inspired by the artist's visits to The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza in 2014-2015. Her visits actually inspired two paintings, "Lost Hope" and "The View from the Sixth Floor." This one, however, is the only one that directly connects to the site of the assassination. Standing on the sixth floor for the first time in 2014, Stough-Anthony was able to look down onto the landscape of Dealey Plaza and consider both her childhood memories of the assassination and the research she had done for her "Fading Memories" series. She felt that "The View from the Sixth Floor" was a fitting end to the series. Although Stough-Anthony said in 2021 that she was not planning additional Kennedy-related paintings, she remains open to the possibility of new inspiration. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator
"The View from the Sixth Floor" oil painting by Tansill Stough-Anthony
"The View from the Sixth Floor" is an oil painting by Tansill Stough-Anthony in a series titled “Fading Memories: In Honor of JFK”. The painting depicts a black and white image of what President Kennedy's limousine might have looked like through the barrel of a rifle from the perspective of the sniper's perch in the southeast corner window of the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository building. The artist signed the painting in the bottom right corner.
"The View from the Sixth Floor" oil painting by Tansill Stough-Anthony
circa 2010
Artwork
Memorials
Artist
Limousine
Rifles
Mannlicher-Carcano
Stough-Anthony, Tansill
Texas School Book Depository
Hot Springs
Dallas
Oil on canvas
With Frame: 25 7/8 × 37 7/8 × 7/8 in. (65.7 × 96.2 × 2.2 cm)
The "Fading Memories: In Honor of JFK" Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
2018.063.0009
The last painting (to date) in Tansill Stough-Anthony's series, "Fading Memories: In Honor of JFK," this work was directly inspired by the artist's visits to The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza in 2014-2015. Her visits actually inspired two paintings, "Lost Hope" and "The View from the Sixth Floor." This one, however, is the only one that directly connects to the site of the assassination. Standing on the sixth floor for the first time in 2014, Stough-Anthony was able to look down onto the landscape of Dealey Plaza and consider both her childhood memories of the assassination and the research she had done for her "Fading Memories" series. She felt that "The View from the Sixth Floor" was a fitting end to the series. Although Stough-Anthony said in 2021 that she was not planning additional Kennedy-related paintings, she remains open to the possibility of new inspiration. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator
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