Subtitle: A Woman in the White House

Commissioned by National Building Museum for "Dream Rooms" exhibit, part of Small Stories exhibition 21 May 2016 - 22 January 2017
15"w x 15"h x 15.5"d
Private collection

Mixed-media assemblage: Wood, paint, fabric, and frames (including one "Made in Germany"). Plastic toy furniture marked "Japan," "Ideal" and "USA." Illustration by Mochi of Florence King Harding, "whose ill-health made it difficult for her to cope with heavy social duties which fell on her during this administration," in World Book Encyclopedia (1950s). Copies of Rand McNally map of downtown Washington, D.C., published in 1935 in Collier's World Atlas And Gazetteer. 1/2-point and 3/8-point lines from "A Book of Rules" (1983). Miniature White House, 1996.

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20APR2016