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Item#: 2026SYR07
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11x17-inches, printed on heavy weight (100-pound) Hammermill cover paper. We package each print with a piece of chipboard in a clear plastic sleeve.
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An information page with photos of the artist and poet, and hand-written comments from each.
A framing coupon, good for a 20 percent discount at Edgewood Gallery, a custom frame shop at 216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse.
Medium- and large-format posters are available by custom order. Contact us for details.
Poem Inspiration Location
1-2-3 In Three-Quarter Time
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Description
1-2-3 in three-quarter time
Evokes Golden Age of Hotel Syracuse's Grand Ballroom
A classic memory of dancing the waltz.
I am a Syracuse native, who continues to support our community in various artistic venues. As a professional musician, I have many memories of Hotel Syracuse, and the Grand Ballroom. As a young child, I remember the grandeur of the ballroom: participating in dance conventions and later entertaining at formal functions and attending weddings. Everyone danced! Many musicians and hotel attendees can relate to the opulence and special moments at Hotel Syracuse. May it live on in its authentic restoration and new era of renaissance.
I have been an artist in Syracuse for close to forty years, working from my studio at the Delavan. I consider myself an abstract expressionist. I am drawn to the emotional language of paint. I chose this poem because it carried the feeling of a memory I share with the poet – dancing in the Grand Ballroom of the Hotel Syracuse. The image began as a monotype of the dancing figures. A monotype is a one-of-a-kind print made by transferring an image from a flat surface onto paper. I collaged the figures onto another surface and painted the surrounding clouds. The final composition, completed in oil paint, uses a monochromatic palette to capture the soft feeling of remembering.