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| Description | Picture of Roger Brown's painting World's Tallest Disaster (1972) at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., in 2023. A painting of a skyscraper on fire at night, rendered in the representational surrealist style of the Chicago Imagists. The fire at the top of the building is only seen behind the profile of the building, and the outlines of people in the building are visible in the windows. The top several floors show people raising their hands in fear as the fire consumes the building. Below them, several floors show crowds of people clamoring together. The bottom floor shows several people calmly eating and smoking. Two shorter buildings adjoin each side of the skyscraper, and a singular figure can be seen pointing to the fire from a window on the left building. The sky beyond the buildings is a stark black, and a pink halo glow is emanating from the stylized fire into the sky. |
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Original work: Roger Brown Depiction: 19h00s |
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| Date of publication | Original work: 1972 Depiction: 2023 |
| Use in article (WP:NFCC#7) | Roger Brown (artist) |
| Purpose of use in article (WP:NFCC#8) | To support encyclopedic discussion of this work in this article. The illustration is specifically needed to support the following point(s): Key example of the artist's paintings depicting disasters in the Chicago Imagist style, for critical analysis of the artist's style |
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| Other information | Original work: Roger Brown World's Tallest Disaster, 1972, Oil and magma on canvas, 72 1⁄8 x 48 in (183.1 x 122.0 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., Museum purchase, Object number: 1974.91 Depiction: The author of the image has released the photographic work under a free license, or it is in the public domain:
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