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To John Wellborn Root

The sixteen story Monadnock building (Burnham and Root, 1889-1891) is still standing in Chicago. In 1980, Pannier created a nine painting series dedicated to this building. See "To the Monadnock"

Monadnock

Monadnock

1981
acrylic, wood, canvas
67 x 67 inches

Pannier family collection
Exhibited Scarfone Gallery
Tampa, Florida 1984
The fifteen story Great Northern Hotel building (Burnham and Root, 1890-1892) was completed after Root's death Although the hotel was demolished in 1940, Pannier chose not to create and slash a second canvas. Ironically, this painting was inadvertently destroyed in a basement flood. Only a working drawing remains to document the painting's existence.

Great Northern

Great Northern

1981
acrylic, wood, canvas
67 x 67 inches

Frankoveglia collection
Destroyed in a basement flood
Never exhibited

More on the
Root Series:

Paintings:

Ashland
Land of Ashes
Rookery #1
Rookery #2
Monadnock
Great Northern
A Woman's Temple
Rape of the Temple Women
Graceland #1
Graceland #2

Exhibitions:

A Woman's Temple
Klein Gallery Chicago 1983

A Woman's Temple
Rape of the Temple Women
Mary Delahoyd Gallery
New York 2001

Land of Ashes
Rookery #2
Monadnock
Lee Scarfone Gallery
Tampa, Florida 1984

Reviews & Guides:

La Gaceta
October 5, 1984

The Tampa Tribune
October 14, 1984

The Tampa Tribune
October 18, 1984

Pannier Wrote:

Art Council Application
Art Council Report

Sketches & Notes


To John Wellborn Root

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