Barbara A KeatingCentral Park West between W 76th St and W 77th StHeart Three · Location 277 · Drawn June 2003Hover over or select the image to reveal a hidden view.PhotographsDownload photograph 1Download photograph 2Download photograph 3Download photograph 4Download photograph 5Download photograph 6Download photograph 7Download photograph 8Download photograph 9Download photograph 10Download photograph 11Download photograph 12Download photograph 13Show all 13 photographsVideo podcast0:00On Central Park West is the New York Historical Society.0:04It's across the street from Central Park, and our drawing was done to the left of the main entrance.0:10If you look up, starting at where the second floor would be, you see a series of large columns.0:17The column on the far left is directly above where this drawing was made.0:23She was drawn sitting on the dual neck standpipe and water faucet projecting from the building.0:30This is Barbara A. Keating.0:33She was drawn in June of 2003.0:37Her drawing is counting five people.0:41Museums.0:42Vaults of our history and recorders of our past.0:45Precious cargo.0:47Primarily focused inward.0:49While on the outside, history just keeps making itself.0:53And today we added a small molecule to this building's history with the creation of a woman sitting on one of the wall-mounted fire hydrants outside.1:02Barbara A. Keating was drawn facing Central Park and is the last figure on this section of the heart line before we dive into the land of no walls.1:11This drawing exists as an uncollectible object, unavailable for permanency.1:18It is not too unlike the human lives we are drawing.1:22It is a fleeting moment in time.1:24Keating spent 25 years in public service,1:2710 as executive director of the Big Brothers, Big Sisters of South Middlesex, outside Boston.1:33She was widowed almost 20 years ago and survived two occurrences of breast cancer.1:38At 72, she split her time between Cape Cod and Palm Springs,1:42where she drove a red Sebring convertible and went to church every day.1:46She planned her year around visits with her 12 grandchildren in Texas, Massachusetts, and California.1:52She drove people for cancer treatments.1:55She was always doing something for somebody, but she never said much about it.← Location 276Heart Three · Location 277Location 278 →
