1939 Fair

Exh: Oakland Art Gallery, 1924-39; Calif. State Fair, 1930; Santa Cruz Art League, 1934, 1938; GGIE, 1939; Society for Sanity in Art, CPLH, 1939; Alameda Co.

Tony Rosenthal received his first public art commission for the Elgin Watch Company building at the 1939 World's Fair. His public art works include five in Manhattan, and numerous ot...

This striking curved glass chair, inspired by the iconic designs of Louis Dierra for the Glass Centre Pavilion at the 1939 World’s Fair in New York, represents a masterful blend of a...

This striking curved glass chair, inspired by the iconic designs of Louis Dierra for the Glass Centre Pavilion at the 1939 World’s Fair in New York, represents a masterful blend of a...

Best known for sculpting the massive "Harvest" mural for the exterior of the main Food Building at the 1939-1940 New York World's Fair, as well as a series of bas relief sculptures i...

Markelius achieved international recognition with his design for the Swedish Pavilion at the New York World’s Fair in 1939. His own home in Kevinge, a low-roofed, sprawling villa amo...

Deskey's design was inspired by the Trylon sphere exhibited at 1939 World's Fair. Both wrought iron shanks are signed Bennett and have an impressed logo.

His farm scene entitled "Spring in Wisconsin" was exhibited at the 1939 World's Fair in New York. Gerrit V. Sinclair died in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1955.

His wood engravings were included in numerous exhibitions, including the 1939 New York World's Fair, and are illustrated in many books on wood engraving and American printmaking.

After exhibiting his furniture at the 1939 New York World's Fair, he launched his company and showroom under the name “Parzinger Originals,” located at 54 East 57th Street in Manhatt...

Beach sculpted a number of important public monuments, including the Fountain of the Waters near the Cleveland Museum of Art and a major piece for the New York World’s Fair in 1939. ...

Worked on the Swiss Pavilion with Herbert Matter for the NY World’s Fair 1939. Also worked for the US Departments of Agriculture, the Army Corps and the Offi ce of Strategic Service,...

She exhibited in numerous exhibitions held by these organizations as well as the Whitney Studio Club, National Academy of Design, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Brooklyn Museum, and t...

Passport office in Rockefeller Center, the Chronic Disease Hospital, the Williamsburg Housing Project, and the 1939 World’s Fair. In the 1940’s, he picketed the Museum of Modern art ...

She won awards at the 1939-1940 New York World's Fair and another international exposition in 1937 in Paris.

Bel Geddes designed the General Motors Pavilion, known as Futurama, for the 1939 New York World's Fair. For that famous and enormously influential installation, Bel Geddes exploited ...

Under these programs Gross taught and demonstrated art, made sculptures that were placed in schools and public colleges, made work for Federal buildings including the Federal Trade C...

The expression “Swedish Modern” was first used at the 1939 New York World Fair, when the designer introduced the model “Oskar”.

Best known for his "Lincoln Walks at Midnight" sculpture which premiered at the 1939-1940 New York World's Fair (now displayed near the West Virginia state capitol), Torrey also scul...

Beck was an important muralist at this time, executing a mural for the US Post Office in Danvers, Massachusetts, and a series of murals for the 1939-1940 New York World's Fair.

Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, Kansas Merchandise Mart, Chicago, Illinois Hermitage Museum in Leningrad, Russia Pushkin Museum in Moscow Mishkan LeOmanut museum, Ein Harod, Israel Ha...

He also produced a famous fountain group for the 1939-1940 World's Fair in New York.

Ronald Joseph was also a participant in the mural section of WPA and a representative of the Harlem Artists’ Guild to the New York World’s Fair (1939-1940). Joseph’s early oil paint...

Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, Kansas Merchandise Mart, Chicago, Illinois Hermitage Museum in Leningrad, Russia Pushkin Museum in Moscow Mishkan LeOmanut museum, Ein Harod, Israel Ha...

As part of the WPA project he executed a number of murals including the Sports Pavilion on the Heinz Building of the New York World's Fair 1939. Some of his fresco and mural techniqu...

Group exhibitions include: San Francisco Museum of Art Inaugural, 1935; New York World's Fair, 1939; Golden Gate International, 1939: MOMA 1943, 1948; Art Institute of Chicago 1943, ...

Government Building and the Building service center, all at the New York World’s Fair in 1939-40. He also painted both murals and easel pictures for private collectors, and is repres...

He applied reductive compositional principles derived from Cubism and De Stijl to his posters, including the one he designed for the New York World's Fair in 1939. He emigrated to th...

His academic work at the University of New Mexico led to his becoming Assistant Professor of Art and Acting Head of the Art Department from 1944 to 1947.[1] He illustrated two books ...

After creating “A Nubian Slave,” 1939, a 14’ plaster figurative sculpture commission for the Elgin Watch Building at the 1939 New York World’s Fair, Tony Rosenthal embarked on a stor...

During New York’s World’s Fair of 1939 Browne exhibited in the “Abstract Painting in America” show held in The Contemporary Art Pavilion among AAA founders Giorgio Cavallon, Balcomb ...

Elena contributed several folk style panels to the Hungarian Pavilion's display at the 1939 New York World's Fair, while Bertha exhibited a couple of sculptures, one entitled "Sleepi...

Member: National Pen Women; Junior Louvre Art Club; Spaulding Reading Circle; Woman’s Club; Topeka Camera Club; National Old Lacers; Fan Guild of Boston (collectors); life member Top...

That year, his painting Circus Day was on display at the Golden Gate International Exposition in San Francisco, while at the New York World's Fair in 1939, his Horse Barn appeared in...

During New York’s World’s Fair of 1939 Browne exhibited in the “Abstract Painting in America” show held in The Contemporary Art Pavilion among AAA founders Giorgio Cavallon, Balcomb ...

They exhibited their collection at the 1939 World’s Fair in New York and when World War II began, those designs remained in New York.

On his return to the United States, Bunin created animated three-dimensional puppets to appear in the 1939 New York World's Fair in New York City. His 1943 political stop-motion sati...

Bartholomew's Church in the City of New York 1941 A portfolio of views of the New York World's Fair of 1939 1939 Wild-Flower Bounty from a L.I.

Bartholomew's Church in the City of New York 1941 A portfolio of views of the New York World's Fair of 1939 1939 Wild-Flower Bounty from a L.I.

Bartholomew's Church in the City of New York 1941 A portfolio of views of the New York World's Fair of 1939 1939 Wild-Flower Bounty from a L.I.

Futter, Inventing the Modern World: Decorative Arts at the World’s Fairs, 1851-1939, exh. cat., Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, 2012, p. 196, no. 9 (for a related example).

Other murals: Rockefeller Center, Bethlehem Steel, New York's General Motors Building, 1939 World's Fair.

His work was also included in exhibitions at The Society of Independent Artists, the Luxembourg Museum in Paris, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, ...

Thon studied at the Arts Student League in New York, and exhibited in the 1930s and 40s at the Brooklyn Society of Artists and Salmagundi Club. During the 1939-40 New York World's Fa...

SOME EXHIBITIONS Gallerie Sturm, Berline, 1927 Barta Miklos Tarsag, Budapest, 1929 Society of Independent Artist, NYC, 1932 Park Lane Gardens, NYC, 1934 Salons of America, The Forum ...

Among other distinctions, he received several honorary appointments from the government of Peru, including that of Artistic Director of the Paris Exposition of 1938 and the New York ...

Among other distinctions, he received several honorary appointments from the government of Peru, including that of Artistic Director of the Paris Exposition of 1938 and the New York ...

In 1937, the Architectural League of New York awarded Choate their gold medal for design and craftsmanship in stone carving, and thereafter he sculpted a number of important bas reli...

While beginning his career as an abstract artist, Scarlett designed sets for George Bernard Shaw’s play Man and Superman, as well as designing modern furniture and creating several p...

Gropper exhibited at the 1939 New York World's Fair, Whitney Museum of American Art (1924-55), Art Institute of Chicago (1935-49), Carnegie International (1937-50), Pennsylvania Acad...

He worked on murals for the British Pavilion at the 1939 New York World's Fair. During the war, Moss made a series of watercolours depicting his time as a camoufleur.

Atherton’s reputation increased to a national scale when he designed the art deco stone lithograph poster for the 1939 World’s Fair that strikingly depicted Earth and its atmospheric...

His groundbreaking techniques enabled him to create monumental ceramic works, including The Swimmer (1937) and Fountain of the Atom for the 1939 New York World’s Fair. Gregory was th...

His engraved glassware from this period was shown at both the 1937 Paris “Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne” and the 1939 New York World’s Fair. Du...

His engraved glassware from this period was shown at both the 1937 Paris “Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne” and the 1939 New York World’s Fair. Du...

Gropper exhibited at the 1939 New York World's Fair, Whitney Museum of American Art (1924-55), Art Institute of Chicago (1935-49), Carnegie International (1937-50), Pennsylvania Acad...

Passport Office in Rockefeller Center, the Chronic Disease Hospital, the Williamsburg Housing Project, and the 1939 World’s Fair.(2) Although Browne destroyed his early academic wor...