The Face On The Barroom Floor Colorado

This underfoot portrait is the work of a disgruntled painter inspired by a tragic poem.

The face on the barroom floor colorado.

It was painted in 1936 by herndon davis. Discover the face on the barroom floor in central city colorado. With henry mollicone catherine o rourke patrick o halloran nathan milholin. The first in a new 5280 series that covers the places people and activities that epitomize our state.

The face on the barroom floor poem by hugh antoine d arcy. Twas a balmy summer evening and a goodly crowd was therewhich wellnigh filled joes barroom on the corner of the square. The eponymous face on the barroom floor in central city colorado that inspired the one act opera by composer henry mollicone and librettist john bowman. But in central city there is a barroom where one such face is not only tolerated.

The story of a strange ballad poem written in 1887 which became a unusual portrait on the barroom floor in a quaint former boomtown in colorado and became the inspiration for one of the most performed modern american operas in history. The face upon the barroom floor aka the face on the floor and the face on the barroom floor is a poem originally written by the poet john henry titus in 1872. In most bars a face on the floor does not usually make the best impression. Most folks believe that it was the inspiration for a once famous 1877 poem of the same name about a drunk who painted it to prove that he had once been a famous artist.

Directed by lawrence kraman. The face on the barroom floor was referenced in the three stooges short movie maniacs in 1936. A later version was adapted from the titus poem by hugh antoine d arcy in 1887 and first published in the new york dispatch. The face on the barroom floor is a painting on the floor of the teller house bar in central city colorado united states.

Courtesy of teller house composer henry mollicone was a young man 40 years ago when the central city opera company in colorado commissioned him to write something short something. The face on the barroom floor. The face on the bar room floor.