Description

This is the inner campus on a quiet afternoon, the arched colonnades on the left, a few people making their way down the path, the red tile roof of the library sitting warm in the background behind a screen of palms and eucalyptus. The whole scene has that unhurried, slightly dreamlike quality that Stanford's older buildings tend to produce when the light is right and nobody is rushing anywhere. This watercolor canvas print leans into it fully, sandy taupes and warm ochres and soft greens, the paint applied loosely enough that the whole thing breathes. It feels less like a document of a place and more like a memory of one. The matte canvas finish gives it a dry, papery quality that suits the subject and the palette perfectly. Gallery-stretched on a slim 1.25" pine frame and ready to hang out of the box, it's for anyone who has walked that path, or anyone who appreciates a campus painted the way it actually feels to be there rather than the way it looks in photographs.

Product features

- Matte, gallery-stretched canvas on 1.25" pine frame

- Printed with UL-certified Greenguard Gold latex inks (non-toxic, non-flammable)

- Sustainably sourced radiata pine inner frame from FSC-certified renewable forests

- Soft rubber dots on bottom back corners and included back hanging for stable wall display

- Available in horizontal, vertical, and square orientations with 60 size options; slight size tolerance +/- 1/8"

Care instructions

- If the canvas does gather any dust, you may wipe it off gently with a clean, damp cloth.

Hoover Library