Disappointed Tourist
Ellen Harvey

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Aston, Birmingham, UK

Rebuilt 1957

Arbol de la Noche Triste

Mexico City Burned 1980 This is a tree in the center of Mexico City. Under this tree the Spaniard Hernan Cortes – aka el Conquistador, cried as he was defeated by the Mexicas. He then went on to win against the Mexicas and conquered Mexico for the Spanish. The tree stayed there over centuries. As […]

Balmville Tree

Balmville, Newburgh, New York, USA Felled The Disappointed Tourist: Balmville Tree, Ellen Harvey, 2024. Oil and acrylic on Gessoboard, 24 x 18″ (61 x 46 cm). Photograph: Etienne Frossard. The Balmville Tree was the oldest known eastern cottonwood in the Eastern United States. Local legend had it that the tree grew when George Washington planted his walking stick […]

Bay Point

Bay Point, New Jersey, USA Blue Acres Expropriation The Disappointed Tourist: Bay Point, Ellen Harvey, 2024. Oil and acrylic on Gessoboard, 18 x 24″ (46 x 61 cm). Photograph: Etienne Frossard. Bay Point was a small town on the Delaware Bay, popular for fishing and crabbing with a marina and houses dotting the shore. Once […]

Bed & Breakfast

Tipperary, Ireland Closed 1977 The Disappointed Tourist: Bed & Breakfast, Ellen Harvey, 2023. Oil and acrylic on Gessoboard, 18 x 24″ (46 x 61 cm). Photograph: Etienne Frossard. A Bed & Breakfast located at 34 Kickham Street, Carrick on Suir, Tipperary, Ireland that closed in 1977. The painting is based on a contemporary photograph of […]

Birmingham Central Library

Birmingham, UK Demolished The Disappointed Tourist: Birmingham Central Library, Ellen Harvey, 2024. Oil and acrylic on Gessoboard, 18 x 24″ (46 x 61 cm). Photograph: Etienne Frossard. Birmingham Central Library was the main public library from 1974 until 2013, when it was demolished and replaced by the new Library of Birmingham. It replaced a prior library […]

Blockbuster Video

USA Closed The Disappointed Tourist: Blockbuster Video, Ellen Harvey, 2024. Oil and acrylic on Gessoboard, 18 x 24″ (46 x 61 cm). Photograph: Etienne Frossard. Blockbuster video was an American video rental store chain, founded by David Cook in 1985 as a stand-alone video rental shop that grew into a national store chain. At its peak in 2004, […]

El Bosque Encantado

La Garita, Alajuela, Costa Rica Closed 1995 The Disappointed Tourist: El Bosque Encantado, Ellen Harvey, 2021. Oil and acrylic on Gessoboard, 24 x 18″ (61 x 46 cm). Photograph: Etienne Frossard. El Bosque Encantado (the Enchanted Forest) was a Costa Rican amusement park founded in 1976 by Don Álvaro and Doña Carmen in La Garita. The painting doesn’t have […]

Chacaltaya Glacier

El Alto, Bolivia Melted 2009 The Chacaltaya Glacier melted away in 2009, six years earlier than scientists had anticipated, due to the increased pace of climate change. It was once the world’s highest ski resort. It was part of the Tuni Condioriri mountain glacier system which provides water for the people of El Alto and […]

Christchurch Greyfriars

London, England, UK Bombed 1940 The Disappointed Tourist: Christchurch Greyfriars, Ellen Harvey, 2021. Oil and acrylic on Gessoboard, 24 x 18″ (61 x 46 cm). Photograph: Etienne Frossard. Christchurch Greyfriars, also known as Christchurch Newgate Street, located in London opposite St. Paul’s Cathedral, was a church built to the design of Sir Christopher Wren to […]

Didcot A Power Station

Oxfordshire, UK Demolished The Disappointed Tourist: Didcot A Power Station, Ellen Harvey, 2021. Oil and acrylic on Gessoboard, 18 x 24″ (46 x 61 cm). Photograph: Etienne Frossard. Didcot A Power Station was a coal and gas-fired power plant designed by architect Frederick Gibberd. Construction was completed in 1968 and the station began functioning in 1970. […]

Eighty Acres Neighborhood

Elsmere, Glassboro, New Jersey, USA Demolished The Disappointed Tourist: Eight Acres Neighborhood, Ellen Harvey, 2021. Oil and acrylic on Gessoboard, 18 x 24″ (46 x 61 cm). Photograph: Etienne Frossard. A concentration of African American households are found in the southwest portion of Glassboro, known as Elsmere, which predates the official formation of the town […]

Flipper’s Roller Boogie Palace

Los Angeles, California, USA Closed 1981 Flipper’s Roller Boogie Palace was converted from a bowling alley into a roller rink in 1979, becoming a brief sensation for its live bands and celebrity guest list. An episode of Charlies Angels (Angels on Skates) was filmed there in 1979. It closed in 1981 and today the building […]

Gare de Saint Germain en Laye

France Demolished In 1835, the brothers Pereire obtained a concession from the Compagnie du Chemin de fer de Paris à Saint-Germain. It was the first line departing Paris and the first line to carry passengers as well as good in France. They opened their 19 km line in 1837, but only as far as Le Pecq […]

Ghost Parking Lot

New Hamden Plaza, Connecticut, USA Demolished Ghost Parking Lot was a public artwork commissioned by the Hamden Plaza shopping center in 1978 from SITE (an architecture and environmental arts studio founded by James Wines in 1970). The artwork consisted of 20 cars covered in asphalt. According to the plaque at the project, the artwork was […]