Flying Over Time Collection

San Diego / The Team, 29" x 41", Mixed-Media and Acrylic on Recycled Canvas with Custom Archival Newsprint Frame, 2010, by Nova Hall. Valuation: Appraised at $18,000+. Provenance: Original Flying Over Time Art Collection. First Prize at ASU West. Formerly part of the permanent collection at the West Valley Art Museum (returned to artist upon museum closure). Exhibited at the Challenger Space Center (Lindbergh Foundation Board).

Appraised at over $18,000, San Diego / The Team is a monumental 29-by-41-inch tribute to the invisible hands that built history. The canvas features the ghostly, red-outlined silhouettes of the Ryan Airlines crew standing shoulder-to-shoulder before the Spirit of St. Louis, set against a vibrant, sweeping Californian sky and the deep blues of the Pacific. Hovering above the team are authentic, decoupage photographs from the Donald A. Hall Estate. The masterpiece’s defining feature is its custom frame, entirely constructed from original 1927 newspaper clippings hand-selected by Donald Hall Sr. and recovered from his steamer trunk. Only the text detailing the flight’s narrative is left readable, a masterful application of Arte Povera and Rauschenberg assemblage that physically borders the art with the very history it depicts.