Dakota Hotel
Dora Erickson, Dakota Hotel, 1933-1934, oil on canvas, Courtesy of the Fine Arts Collection, U.S. General Services Administration. New Deal Art Project, public domain, L34.2
This work is not currently on view.
- Title
Dakota Hotel
- Date
1933-1934
- Medium
oil on canvas
- Dimensions (H x W x D)
35 7/8 in x 29 1/2 in; frame: 38 in x 31 13/16 in x 1 1/8 in
- Inscriptions & Markings
signature: D. Erickson, brushed, lower right
- Collection Area
Modern and Contemporary Art; Northwest Art
- Category
Paintings
- Object Type
painting
- Culture
American
- Credit Line
Courtesy of the Fine Arts Collection, U.S. General Services Administration. New Deal Art Project
- Accession Number
L34.2
- Copyright
public domain
- Terms
Dora Erikson’s Dakota Hotel perfectly captures the atmosphere and stillness of a starlit night on the prairie. The sparseness and simplicity of her technique is ideally matched to her raw, rural subject matter. The figures, each lost in their own thoughts, seem as peaceful as the horses that graze in the pasture. Beyond stretch what seem like limitless land and sky. Little is known about Erikson, who studied with Harry Wentz at the Museum Art School (now the Pacific Northwest College of Art) and also attended the Arts Students League in New York. Another of her works, Open Air Concert, can be seen at Timberline Lodge.
- Exhibitions
2015 Paradise: Fallen Fruit Portland Art Museum
