Augustus Vincent Tack's Spirit of Creation, 1944.
In 1944, as
a commissioned project facilitated by Duncan Phillips, Tack created a beautiful
mural, called Time and Timelessness (Spirit of Creation), to be
used as a fire curtain in the university’s new auditorium. Tack fell ill during the creation of
the mural and only completed half of the panels himself. The remainder were
carried out by longtime assistant, Carl Lella.
The design
for the fire curtain is closely related to the painting Liberation, in the Phillips’s permanent
collection. The painting Time and
Timelessness is a
sketch for the mural.
Tack, a
deeply spiritual and philosophical artist, truly took the university’s
commission to heart.
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