The Face on the Barroom Floor (painting)

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Face on the Barroom Floor is a painting on the floor of the Teller House Bar in Central City, Colorado, USA. Painted in 1936 by Herndon Davis.

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The story of the painting

Davis has been commissioned by the Central City Opera Association to paint a series of paintings for Central City Opera House; he was also asked to do some work at Home Teller. One afternoon at the bar, he becomes involved in a fierce fight with Ann Evans, the project director, about how his work works. The result of the fight was that Davis was told to quit, or he would be fired.

According to one version of the story, the painting was the suggestion of a busboy named Joe Libby; knowing that Davis would soon be fired, he suggested that the artist "give them something to remember [him] by".

In Davis's own words,

The City Center Opera House association hired me to perform a series of paintings and sketches of famous mining towns, which they later celebrated as opera centers and tourist attractions. I stayed at the Teller House while working there, and the urge to get me to paint my face on the floor in the old Teller House's front room. At the time of its mining boom, it was just a floor like a ragged artist used in the famous old poem at d'Arcy. But the hotel manager and the bartender will not have such nonsense. They refused my permission to paint faces. But the idea still haunts me, and on my last night in Central City I persuaded Jimmy Libby's bellboy to help me. After midnight, when the beach is sunny, we sneak in there. Jimmy holds a candle for me and I paint as fast as I can. However it was already 3 am when I finished.

Whatever the inspiration, Davis did not sign his work, and soon the bar owner chose to use it. They advertise the painting from the poem "Face on the Floor Barroom" by Hugh Antoine D'Arcy. The real subject of the painting is Davis's wife, Edna Juanita (Cotter) Davis "Nita". He lives in 1323 Kalamath st, Denver, Co

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Chamber opera

Teller House Painting is the inspiration for the opera room entitled Face on the Floor Barroom by Henry Mollicone.

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References

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External links

• The painting story
• Herndon Davis: Painting the History of Colorado, 1901-1962, by Craig Leavitt and Thomas J. Noel

Source of the article : Wikipedia