The Friends of the Georgetown Library celebrated two new works of art
Works by two Georgetown artists — Sidney Lawrence and Arthur Day — now hang proudly in the Georgetown Neighborhood Library. The Friends of the Georgetown Library hosted an intimate reception Thursday evening with one of the artists on hand to speak about his D.C. cityscape. Lawrence's piece is an archival digital print of a thin-line ink drawing of his D.C. cityscape. Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner Tom Birch donated Lawrence's work to the library. Day donated a colorful landscape of Wisconsin Avenue as seen from its intersection with M Street. Both works hang over the two fireplaces on the library's first floor. "I think it's a charming drawing," said Birch. Birch said he decided to donate the work in part because Lawrence had been …
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Works by Sidney Lawrence and Arthur Day add a local aesthetic to the recently renovated Georgetown library.
Georgetowners have poured their time, energy, funds and now their creativity into making the neighborhood library a local treasure. Works by two Georgetown artists — Sidney Lawrence and Arthur Day — now adorn the library, which was recently renovated after a fire five years ago. The works, one an archival digital print of a thin-line ink drawing of a D.C. cityscape and the other a colorful landscape of Georgetown streets, hang over two fireplaces on the library's first floor. Lawrence described his cityscape of the National Mall, saying it stretched "all the way from the Capitol building, zooming along to the Washington Monument and up the river to Georgetown." Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner Tom Birch donated Lawrence's work to the …
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Shaun Courtney
10:32 am on Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Nice plug and great idea! more ›