Frankfort Grade School Building (Frankfort, Kansas). 2017. 9" x 12".

Constructed in 1902, this one-time grade school building was designed in the Renaissance Revival style, not a very common style for buildings of this type in this part of the United States. While on a road trip around south-central Nebraska and north-central Kansas, I stopped in Frankfort to look at this architectural gem in real life. The cornices with their dentils, the wonderful round arches with their emphasized keystones, the thoughtfully placed stonework, and the ornately decorated wooden porch are just some of the elements that make this such an extraordinary building.

I decided to work from one of my photographs to draw the building on what is for me a smaller scale - 9" x 12". My own black and white drawings often remind me of old prints, and creating this drawing in black and white adds to the feeling that this is an old structure, helping me to visually place the building into the time period in which it was made.