Impression of the New York World's Fair (mural study, Communications Building, World's Fair, Flushing, New York)

Stuart Davis, Impression of the New York World's Fair (mural study, Communications Building, World's Fair, Flushing, New York), 1938, gouache on paperboard, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the United States Information Agency through the General Services Administration, 1995.27

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This work is the only surviving design of the artist’s demolished mural for the Communications Building at the World’s Fair held in Flushing, New York, in 1939. This gouache was originally commissioned by Harper’s Bazaar magazine for its February 1939 issue. Impression of the New York World’s Fair is an interpretation of various architectural elements at the fair, such as the Perisphere and the Trylon, and of stripper Gypsy Rose Lee at center stage.

Graphic Masters II: Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2009

Title

Impression of the New York World's Fair (mural study, Communications Building, World's Fair, Flushing, New York)

Artist

Stuart Davis

Commissioner

Harper's Bazaar

Date

1938

Location