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View of the Mall from the Castle:
James Renwick Jr's 1855 Norman castle, the original Smithsonian Institution building, takes no a life of its own in a fantastical thunderstorm. The artist skews the perspective of the roof to evoke a panoramic photograph, while the Natural History Museum, Washington Monument, and Capitol peek from beyond the castle's realistically painted red sandstone towers and turrets.
by Robert Haas, 1983 |