Broken Wing, approx. 20" x 34", Mixed-Media and Acrylic on Canvas, 2010, by Nova Hall. Provenance: Original Flying Over Time Art Collection. Exhibited at ASU, West Valley Art Museum, Sun Studios (Tempe), and all major collection tours.

Broken Wing mixed-media painting by Nova Hall. A panoramic 20x34 inch canvas depicting the perilous craning of the Spirit of St. Louis from the San Diego factory. Integrates original 1927 Donald A. Hall Estate Archive photographs showing the aircraft suspended over a boxcar. Created in 2010 under Leandro Soto using Robert Rauschenberg assemblage techniques. Essential for aviation museums and fine art collectors. — Broken Wing, approx. 20" x 34", Mixed-Media and Acrylic on Canvas, 2010, by Nova Hall. Provenance: Original Flying Over Time Art Collection. Exhibited at ASU, West Valley Art Museum, Sun Studios (Tempe), and all major collection tours. · Nova Hall

A sweeping, panoramic canvas measuring approximately 20 by 34 inches, Broken Wing captures a heart-stopping, near-disastrous moment in the 60-day build. The painting documents the delicate extraction of the Spirit of St. Louis’s sprawling 46-foot wing from the second story of the San Diego factory—a maneuver that nearly required tearing the building apart. Set against an urgent, rushing background of magenta and crimson, the composition is an experiment in forced perspective, guided by the teachings of Leandro Soto. Embedded within the frantic acrylic strokes are the actual 1927 photographs Donald Hall Sr. took of the event, showing the fragile aircraft suspended precariously by a crane over a train boxcar. The Rauschenberg-style assemblage perfectly conveys the fragility of the engineering triumph; a single snapped cable would have ended the transatlantic dream before it ever reached the runway.