Achilles G. Rizzoli, born Point Reyes, CA 1896-died San Francisco, CA 1981 Search this
Medium:
ink on paper
Dimensions:
sheet and image: 33 3/4 × 22 in. (85.7 × 55.9 cm)
Type:
Drawing
Folk Art
Date:
1935
Gallery Label:
Achilles G. Rizzoli lived his entire life in San Francisco, working as a draftsman in an architectural office for more than forty years. He was devoted to his own art, particularly an extensive series of architectural renderings of a utopian city in which he portrayed people, most significantly his mother, as buildings. The Kathredal: Mother Symbolically Represented is an architectural personification of his mother’s essential attributes: strength, beauty, and spiritual perfection. The YTTE (Yield to Total Elation) plans are also symbolic representations of people but adopt a floor plan format. The YTTE drawings often explore ideas of his father, who disappeared when Rizzoli was nineteen.
Topic:
Architecture Exterior\religious\church Search this
Credit Line:
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mike Wilkins and Sheila Duignan, Bonnie and Sy Grossman, Berkeley, CA, and museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment
