401 Park Drive - Fenway Park, Boston

A Samuels & Associates project. Built in 1929 for Sears, Roebuck and Company, reimagined in 2019 by Elkus Manfredi Architects. 401 Park has become the heart of Boston's most vibrant and dynamic neighborhoods. Where history meets modern day spirit. Where visionaries work, foodies dine and the city comes together.

Emily Fine Art commissioned Boston artist Timmy Sneaks to create a mural on a wall located on the parking-garage level of the main stair to give arriving visitors to 401 Park their first experience of the environment they’re entering. Aligning with the goals for the artwork, the mural acts as an extension of the vision for the entire building: a contemporary interpretation that honors the roots of the building while placing it firmly in the present. The artist worked with old found black and white photographs of the Sears building and parking lot filled with cars from the late 1940s, blowing the photos up, wheat-pasting them onto the wall, and painting historic cartoon characters from the Looney Tunes Series that date back to the early 1930s, when the Sears building was built. Santangelo’s team traveled to the Texas Motor Speedway, the largest car parts swap meet in the country to source grilles, doors, and hoods of old Packards, Buicks, Chevys, and Fords, along with vintage gas pumps to stand alongside the garage mural. Sneaks incorporated the car parts into the mural, giving it sculptural dimension and detail.