Barton incorporated an unusually lengthy inscription into this drawing, writing in red ink: “the doorway to the most beautiful house from new york west to china and south to merida, yucatán, mexico, the casa de montejo.” The Casa de Montejo is a sixteenth-century building located on the central square in Mérida, the capital of the Mexican state of Yucatán.
Rick Barton (1928–1992)
Casa de Montejo, 1960–61
Pen and ink
Rick Barton papers (Collection 2374), UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles