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Interior of Porter station showing the inbound platform. Glove Cycle was created as a part of the MBTA and the Cambridge Arts Council's "Arts on the Line" program.This first of its kind program was devised to bring art into the MBTA's planned Northwest Extension of the Red Line subway stations in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and became a model for similar drives for public art across the ...
Arts on the Line was the first program of its kind in the United States and became the model for similar drives for art across the country. [1] The first twenty artworks were completed in 1985 with a total cost of US$ 695,000 , or one half of one percent of the total construction cost of the Red Line Northwest Extension , of which they were a part.
Vernon Carroll Porter, artist, was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1896. [1] He studied at the Art Students League , [ 2 ] Grand Central School Academy, the Mechanics Institute, and Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute and was known for his surreal landscape oil paintings.
Gift of the Wind was commissioned in 1983 [3] and unveiled in 1985 as a part of the MBTA and the Cambridge Arts Council's Arts on the Line program. This first of its kind program was devised to bring art into the MBTA's planned Northwest Extension of the Red Line subway stations in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and became a model for similar drives for public art across the country. [4]
Guyan Porter (born 1971, Aberdeen, Scotland) is a visual artist living in Sussex, England, and working internationally. His work encompasses installation , sculpture , painting , architectural and public interventions and studio-based work that explores 'the sociological and psychological foundations of belief'. [ 1 ]
Rufus Porter Rufus Porter water color wall mural Rufus Porter advertisement for his 1849 New York to California transport Rufus Porter mural in the Kent House, Lyme, New Hampshire Title page of Porter's pamphlet of 1849. Rufus Porter (May 1, 1792 – August 13, 1884) was an American painter, inventor, and founder of Scientific American magazine ...
Howard Porter graduated from Paier College of Art in Connecticut where he majored in illustration.One of his teachers there was Frank McLaughlin.McLaughlin also worked as a comic book inker and he began to give Porter work assisting him in his inking jobs which led Porter to assist other inkers and eventually find work for himself in the industry.
The Artist's Reserved Rights Transfer and Sale Agreement, 1971. The Artist's Reserved Rights Transfer and Sale Agreement (also known as the Artist's Contract or Projansky Deal) is an open-source [citation needed] legal contract for the transfer and sale of an individual work of art in any medium, material or immaterial, including digital art. [1]