Skip to main content
Advanced Search
"The View from the Sixth Floor" oil painting by Tansill Stough-Anthony
"The View from the Sixth Floor" oil painting by Tansill Stough-Anthony

"The View from the Sixth Floor" oil painting by Tansill Stough-Anthony

Object number2018.063.0009
Datecirca 2010
ClassificationsArt
Artist Tansill Stough-Anthony
ObjectArtwork
Credit LineThe "Fading Memories: In Honor of JFK" Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsWith Frame: 25 7/8 × 37 7/8 × 7/8 in. (65.7 × 96.2 × 2.2 cm)
Collections
Description"The View from the Sixth Floor" is an oil painting by Tansill Stough-Anthony in a series titled “Fading Memories: In Honor of JFK”. The painting depicts a black and white image of what President Kennedy's limousine might have looked like through the barrel of a rifle from the perspective of the sniper's perch in the southeast corner window of the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository building. The artist signed the painting in the bottom right corner.
Curatorial Commentary
The last painting (to date) in Tansill Stough-Anthony's series, "Fading Memories: In Honor of JFK," this work was directly inspired by the artist's visits to The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza in 2014-2015. Her visits actually inspired two paintings, "Lost Hope" and "The View from the Sixth Floor." This one, however, is the only one that directly connects to the site of the assassination. Standing on the sixth floor for the first time in 2014, Stough-Anthony was able to look down onto the landscape of Dealey Plaza and consider both her childhood memories of the assassination and the research she had done for her "Fading Memories" series. She felt that "The View from the Sixth Floor" was a fitting end to the series. Although Stough-Anthony said in 2021 that she was not planning additional Kennedy-related paintings, she remains open to the possibility of new inspiration. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator