Another India

George Biddle

1959

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House at Dillard, Georgia, Joseph Marino-Merlo, pencil on paper
This image is created with black ink on paper. Its background is dominated by a tall group of six buildings in downtown Birmingham, including a group of four buildings that comprise the “Heaviest Corner on Earth” and the City Federal Building, which is only seen as a small segment behind the Heaviest Corner. In the foreground of the etching are buildings of a smaller scale and through them runs railroad tracks. A street runs beneath the railroad tracks through an underpass, and a number of people walk on the street.
This image is created with black ink on yellowed paper. It represents the façade of “The Bank for Savings & Trusts.” In the lower eighth of the image, there is an empty sidewalk and a small portion of the street.
In this painting on paper, an abstract tree fills the sheet. It stretches between all four sides of the page, extending beyond the image. There is a tangle of branches in front of a background only alluded to by color. At the top of the sheet the artist suggests a sky of blue and pink tones, and at the bottom of the sheet a grassy ground is suggested through teal and green paint. The fields of color are defined by the tree branches. The painting is signed in the lower right, Sheeler - 1947."