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Description of Subject Matter: Metro Center
Mezzanine level above fare machines and Macy's entrance.
Scenes of Washington, 2000
G. Byron Peck
Acrylic polymer paint on fireproof syntax, lightweight aluminum frame
62'7" l x 12'10" h x 3" t
Scenes of Washington, by Washington, D.C. artist G. Byron Peck, is located at Metro Center station on the Red, Orange and Blue Lines in the District of Columbia. The painted mural depicts scenes of built and natural environments in the Nation's Capital. The mural, originally installed in 1989, was expanded in 2001 to fit the surrounding vaulted wall. The expansion allowed the artist to add more images of the Capital City.
This project was made possible in part by the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities as part of MetroArt II, the second phase of the pre-cursor to the Art in Transit program.
G. Byron Peck lives in Washington, DC and has created over 80 murals and mosaics throughout the United States and abroad. He has created paintings for shows in New York and Washington, DC and taught classes at the Corcoran School of Art, the Smithsonian Museum, George Washington University and George Mason University. Mural commissions have included the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and the American Embassy in Santiago, Chile.
The above was from https://www.wmata.com/initiatives/art-in-transit/ait-metro-center.cfm
Metro Center
Above the 12th & F St. entrance.
Ribbons and Jewels, 1991
Hazel Rebold
Stained glass
~24" l x ~15" h
Metro Center - Ribbons and Jewels - 1991
The five Tiffany-like stained glass sconces add a warm and personal ambiance to the austere architecture of Metro Center station.
This project was made possible in part by the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities as part of MetroArt II, the second phase of the pre-cursor to the Art in Transit program.
Hazel Rebold is a stained-glass artist currently living in Washington, D.C. Her delicate and intricate artwork is featured locally in venues such ...More...
Wikipedia Description: Metro Center (Washington Metro)
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Metro Center is the central hub station of the Metrorail rapid transit system in Washington, D.C. Metro Center was one of the original Metro stations, and service began on March 27, 1976.
Metro Center is on the Blue, Orange, and Red Lines, and is a transfer station between the Red Line and the already-joined Blue and Orange Lines. It is also scheduled to be on the Silver Line route, which is scheduled to start operations in 2011.
Metro Center is located in downtown Washington, under an area roughly extending east-west from 11th to 13th Streets Northwest, and north-south from G to H Streets Northwest. Its entrances are on G Street at 11th, 12th and 13th Streets, and at the corner of 12th and F Streets. The station's only street elevator is on the west side of 12th Street north of G Street. It is the second busiest station in the Metrorail system after Union Station, averaging 30,500 passengers per weekday as of May 3, 2006.
The mezzanine (upper) level of the station contain side platforms for Red Line trains traveling towards Glenmont and towards Shady Grove. Orange Line and Blue Lines trains traveling in both directions share a center platform on the station's lower level.
A Metro sales office is located on the mezzanine level of the station on the platform for Glenmont-bound Red Line trains, near the 12th and F Street entrance. The Grand Hyatt Washington is connected to Metro Center, as is downtown's only remaining department store, Macy's. During the mid-20th Century, the area was the commercial heart of Washington, housing many department stores, theaters, offices, restaurants, and amusements. Due to a combination of the 1968 racial disturbances, the opening of new suburban malls, and concentration of new commercial building near K Street - Farragut Square, the Metro Center area declined, then later successfully revived. The Shops at National Place is an adjacent two-level dinin ...More...
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2002 photos: This was the year I started the photo web site. It started to come together in August 2002, mostly as a way of allowing me to keep track of the pictures I was taking. It took awhile to add some basic bells and whistles (logging didn't get added until November) but it's been pretty much like it started out since then. Archaic but working, and free!
Trips this year: Two weeks out west, one week in New York, and one week down south.
Image quality isn't going to be very good for the first half of this year because these are scans of prints.
Equipment this year: I took the plunge and bought my first digital camera. It was August 2002 and I bought an Epson PhotoPC 3100Z. While a nice camera, it had some quirks and bumping it would result in it being totally out of focus until you manually shut it down -- something which blurred almost every picture I took in New York City one day.
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