Conceptual Drawing of the Ford Exhibition Building's Main Entrance and "The Road of Tomorrow," New York World's Fair, 1939
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Artifact Overview
Ford Motor Company, a major participant in the 1939-40 New York World's Fair, hired industrial designer Walter Dorwin Teague to create its exhibition building in New York City's Flushing Meadows-Corona Park. This conceptual rendering shows the entrance to Teague's Ford Building. It features a stainless steel sculpture depicting Mercury, whose mythological speed symbolized the swift progress of modern transportation.
Artifact Details
Artifact
Watercolor (Painting)
Date Made
1939
Subject Date
1939-1940
Place of Creation
Creator Notes
By Walter Dorwin Teague for Ford Motor Company.
Location
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
83.1.1645.52
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Ford Motor Company.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Technique
Watercolor painting (Technique)
Color
Multicolored
Dimensions
Height: 22 in (drawing)
Width: 32 in (drawing)
Height: 25 in (in mat with Mylar)
Width: 36 in (in mat with Mylar)
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