Irving Bacon Works on the Painting of Light's Golden Jubilee, January 17, 1938

THF149657 / Irving Bacon Works on the Painting of Light's Golden Jubilee, January 17, 1938

Artifact Overview

Artifact

Photographic print

Subject Date

17 January 1938

Creators

Collection Title

Location

Object ID

84.1.1660.P.188.22259

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Ford Motor Company.

Material

Paper (Fiber product)
Photographic materials

Technique

Gelatin silver process

Color

Black-and-white (Colors)

Dimensions

Height: 8.25 in
Width: 10 in

Keywords	United States, Michigan, Detroit Photographic prints Photographs Banquets (Feasts) Painters (Artists) Oil paintings (Visual works) Bacon, Irving R. (Irving Reuben), 1875-1962 Henry Ford (Organization) Light's Golden Jubilee (1929)

Artifact
Light's Golden Jubilee and Dedication of Edison Institute by Irving Bacon, Painted 1945
Henry Ford planned the dedication of his museum complex to coincide with the 50th anniversary in October 1929 of Thomas Edison's invention of the incandescent lamp. Surprisingly, there were no photographs taken of the Light's Golden Jubilee banquet so, in the mid-1930s, Ford asked his staff artist, Irving Bacon, to capture the event in this panoramic painting, which took over a decade to complete.