1933 Chicago Worlds Fair Exposition Art Deco Pavilion Advertising Poster 319370

$21.95 Buy It Now, $8.95 Shipping, eBay Money Back Guarantee
Seller: posterprintartshop ✉️ (1,650) 0%, Location: Branch, Michigan, US, Ships to: US & many other countries, Item: 235491784537 1933 CHICAGO WORLDS FAIR EXPOSITION ART DECO PAVILION ADVERTISING POSTER 319370.

BOLD BRIGHT ART DECO COLORS --- CHICAGO CENTURY OF PROGRESS WORLD'S FAIR -- 1933 - PURE ART DECO STYLE... This poster was created for the  1933 Chicago World's Fair. The Chicago World's Fair Century of Progress Exposition of 1933 was held to celebrate the city's centennial and was built around a theme of technological innovation. The fair's motto was: "Science Finds, Industry Applies, Man Conforms."  This Chicago World's Fair poster shows the Federal Building with a gold dome and three fluted towers that represent the three branches of United States Government.

PLEASE SEE PHOTO FOR DETAILS AND CONDITION OF THIS NEW POSTER

SIZE OF POSTER PRINT - 12 X 18 INCHES

DATE OF ORIGINAL PRINT, POSTER OR ADVERT - 1933

At PosterPrint Shop we look for rare & unusual ITEMS OF commercial graphics from throughout the world.

The PosterPrints are printed on high quality 48 # acid free PREMIUM GLOSSY PHOTO PAPER (to insure high depth ink holding and wrinkle free product)

Most of the PosterPrints have APPROX 1/4" border MARGINS for framing, to use in framing without matting.

MOST POSTERPRINTS HAVE IMAGE SIZE OF 11.5 X 17.5.

As decorative art these PosterPrints give you - the buyer - an opportunity to purchase and enjoy fine graphics (which in most cases are rare in original form) in a size and price range to fit most all.

As graphic collectors ourselves, we take great pride in doing the best job we can to preserve and extend the wonderful historic graphics of the past.

Should you have any questions please feel free to email us and we will do our best to clarify.

We use USPS.

WE ship items DAILY.

We ship in custom made extra thick ROUND TUBES..... WE SHIP POSTERPRINTS ROLLED + PROTECTED BY PLASTIC BAG

For multiple purchases please wait for our invoice... THANKS.

We pride ourselves on quality product, service and shipping. 

POSTERPRINTARTSHOP



DESCRIPTION OF ITEM: additional information:


A Century of Progress International Exposition , also known as the  Chicago World's Fair , was a  World's Fair  held in the city of  Chicago, Illinois, United States, from 1933 to 1934. The fair, registered under the  Bureau International des Expositions  (BIE), celebrated the city's centennial. The theme of the fair was  technological innovation, and its motto was "Science Finds, Industry Applies, Man Adapts", trumpeting the message that science and American life were wedded.   Its architectural symbol was the  Sky Ride, a  transporter bridge  perpendicular to the shore on which one could ride from one side of the fair to the other.

One description of the fair noted that the world, "then still mired in the malaise of the  Great Depression, could glimpse a happier not-too-distant future, all driven by innovation in science and technology." Fair visitors saw the latest wonders in rail travel, automobiles, architecture and even cigarette-smoking robots.The exposition "emphasized technology and progress, a utopia, or perfect world, founded on democracy and manufacturing."

A Century of Progress was organized as an Illinois nonprofit corporation in January 1928 for the purpose of planning and hosting a World's Fair in Chicago in 1934. City officials designated three and a half miles of newly reclaimed land along the shore of Lake Michigan between 12th and 39th streets on the  Near South Side  for the fairgrounds.]  Held on a 427 acres (1.73 km2) portion of  Burnham Park, the $37,500,000 exposition was formally opened on May 27, 1933, by US Postmaster General  James Farley  at a four hour ceremony at  Soldier Field.  The fair's opening night began with a nod to the heavens. Lights were automatically activated when the rays of the star  Arcturus  were detected. The star was chosen as its light had started its journey at about the time of the previous Chicago world's fair—the  World's Columbian Exposition—in 1893.  The rays were focused on  photoelectric cells  in a series of astronomical observatories and then transformed into electrical energy which was transmitted to Chicago.

Exhibits

The fair buildings were multi-colored, to create a "Rainbow City" as compared to the "White City" of Chicago's earlier  World's Columbian Exposition. The buildings generally followed  Moderne architecture  in contrast to the neoclassical themes used at the 1893 fair. One famous feature of the fair were the performances of fan dancer  Sally Rand. Other popular exhibits were the various auto manufacturers, the Midway (filled with nightclubs such as the Old Morocco, where future stars  Judy Garland,  The Cook Family Singers, and  The Andrews Sisters  performed), and a recreation of important scenes from Chicago's history. The fair also contained exhibits that would seem shocking to modern audiences, including offensive portrayals of African-Americans, a "Midget City" complete with "sixty  Lilliputians",  and an exhibition of  incubators  containing real babies.

The fair included an exhibit on the history of Chicago. In the planning stages, several  African-American  groups from the city's newly growing population campaigned for  Jean Baptiste Point du Sable  to be honored at the fair.  At the time, few Chicagoans had even heard of Point du Sable, and the fair's organizers presented the 1803 construction of  Fort Dearborn  as the city's historical beginning. The campaign was successful, and a replica of Point du Sable's cabin was presented as part of the "background of the history of Chicago".  Also on display was the "Lincoln Group" of reconstructions of buildings associated with the biography of Abraham Lincoln, including his birth cabin, the Lincoln-Berry Store, the Chicago Wigwam (in reduced scale), and the Rutledge Tavern which served as a restaurant.

Admiral Byrd's polar expedition ship  the  City of New York   was visited by President  Franklin D. Roosevelt  when he came to the fair on October 2, 1933. The  City   was on show for the full length of the exhibition.

One of the highlights of the 1933 World's Fair was the arrival of the German airship  Graf Zeppelin   on October 26, 1933. After circling Lake Michigan near the exposition for two hours, Commander  Hugo Eckener  landed the 776-foot airship at the nearby  Curtiss-Wright Airport  in  Glenview. It remained on the ground for twenty-five minutes (from 1 to 1:25 pm)  then took off ahead of an approaching weather front, bound for  Akron, Ohio.

The "dream cars" which American automobile manufacturers exhibited at the fair included  Duesenberg  and  Rollston's  $20,000  Twenty Grand   ultra-luxury sedan;  Cadillac's introduction of its V-16 limousine;  Nash's exhibit had a variation on the vertical (i.e.,  paternoster lift) parking garage—all the cars were new Nashes;  Lincoln  presented its rear-engined "concept car" precursor to the  Lincoln-Zephyr, which went on the market in 1936 with a front engine;  Pierce-Arrow  presented its modernistic  Pierce Silver Arrow  for which it used the byline "Suddenly it's 1940!" But it was  Packard  which won the best of show.

One interesting and enduring exhibit was the  1933 Homes of Tomorrow Exhibition  that demonstrated modern home convenience and creative practical new building materials and techniques with twelve model homes sponsored by several corporations affiliated with home decor and construction. Marine artist  Hilda Goldblatt Gorenstein (Hilgos)  painted twelve murals for the Navy's exhibit in the Federal Building for the fair. The frieze was composed of twelve murals depicting the influence of sea power on America, beginning with the settlement of  Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607 when sea power first reached America and carrying through World War I.

The  first  Major League Baseball All-Star Game  was held at  Comiskey Park  (home of the  Chicago White Sox) in conjunction with the fair.

In May 1934, the  Union Pacific Railroad  exhibited its first streamlined train, the  M-10000, and the  Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad  its famous  Zephyr   which, on May 26, made a record-breaking dawn-to-dusk run from Denver, Colorado, to Chicago in 13 hours and 5 minutes, called the "Dawn-to-Dusk Dash". To cap its record-breaking speed run, the  Zephyr   arrived dramatically on-stage at the fair's "Wings of a Century" transportation pageant.  The two trains launched an era of industrial streamlining.  Both trains later went into successful revenue service, the Union Pacific's as the  City of Salina , and the Burlington  Zephyr   as the first  Pioneer Zephyr .  The  Zephyr   is now on exhibit at  Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry.

Frank Buck  furnished a wild animal exhibit, Frank Buck's Jungle Camp. Over two million people visited Buck's reproduction of the camp he and his native assistants lived in while collecting animals in Asia. After the fair closed, Buck moved the camp to a compound he had created at  Amityville, New York.

Planning for the design of the Exposition began over five years prior to Opening Day.  According to an official resolution, decisions regarding the site layout and the architectural style of the exposition were relegated to an architectural commission, which was led by  Paul Cret  and  Raymond Hood.  Local architects on the committee included  Edward Bennett,  John Holabird, and Hubert Burnham.  Frank Lloyd Wright  was specifically left off the commission due to his inability to work well with others, but did go on to produce three conceptual schemes for the fair.  Members of this committee ended up designing most of the large, thematic exhibition pavilions.

From the beginning, the commission members shared a belief that the buildings should not reinterpret past architectural forms – as had been done at earlier fairs, such as Chicago's 1893 World's Columbian Exposition—but should instead reflect new, modern ideas, as well as suggest future architectural developments.  Because the fairgrounds was on new man-made land that was owned by the state and not the city, the land was initially free from Chicago's strict building codes, which allowed the architects to explore new materials and building techniques.  This allowed the design and construction of a wide array of experimental buildings, that eventually included large general exhibition halls, such as the Hall of Science (Paul Cret) and the U.S. Federal Building (Bennet, Burnham and Holabird); corporate pavilions, including the General Motors Building (Albert Kahn) and the Sears Pavilion (Nimmons, Carr, and Wright); futuristic model houses, most popular was the twelve-sided House of Tomorrow (George Frederick Keck); as well as progressive foreign pavilions, including the Italian Pavilion (Mario de Renzi and Adalberto Libera); and historic and ethnic entertainment venues, such as the Belgian Village (Burnham Brothers with Alfons De Rijdt) and the Streets of Paris (Andrew Rebori and John W. Root) where fan dancer  Sally Rand  performed.  These buildings were constructed out of five-ply Douglas fir plywood, ribbed-metal siding, and prefabricated, boards, such as Masonite, Sheetrock, Maizewood, as well as other new man-made materials.]  The exhibited buildings were windowless (but cheerfully lighted) buildings.  Structural advances also filled the fairgrounds. These included the earliest catenary roof constructed in the United States, which roofed the dome of the Travel and Transport Building (Bennet, Burnham and Holabird) and the first thin shell concrete roof in the United States, on the small, multi-vaulted Brook Hill Farm Dairy built for the 1934 season of the fair.

Art Deco , short for the French  Arts Décoratifs , and sometimes just called  Deco , is a style of visual arts,  architecture, and  product design, that first appeared in France in the 1910s (just before  World War I),  and flourished in the United States and Europe during the 1920s and 1930s. Through styling and design of the exterior and interior of anything from large structures to small objects, including how people look (clothing, fashion and jewelry), Art Deco has influenced bridges, buildings (from skyscrapers to cinemas), ships,  ocean liners, trains, cars, trucks, buses, furniture, and everyday objects like radios and vacuum cleaners.

It got its name after the 1925  Exposition internationale des arts décoratifs et industriels modernes  (International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts) held in Paris.

Art Deco combined modern styles with fine craftsmanship and rich materials. During its heyday, it represented luxury, glamour, exuberance, and faith in social and technological progress.

From its outset, Art Deco was influenced by the bold geometric forms of  Cubism  and the  Vienna Secession; the bright colours of  Fauvism  and of the  Ballets Russes; the updated craftsmanship of the furniture of the eras of  Louis Philippe I  and  Louis XVI; and the exoticized styles of  China,  Japan,  India,  Persia,  ancient Egypt  and  Maya art. It featured rare and expensive materials, such as ebony and ivory, and exquisite craftsmanship. The  Empire State Building,  Chrysler Building, and  other skyscrapers of New York City built during the 1920s and 1930s  are monuments to the style.

In the 1930s, during the  Great Depression, Art Deco became more subdued. New materials arrived, including  chrome plating,  stainless steel  and plastic. A sleeker form of the style, called  Streamline Moderne, appeared in the 1930s, featuring curving forms and smooth, polished surfaces.  Art Deco is one of the first truly international styles, but its dominance ended with the beginning of  World War II  and the rise of the strictly functional and unadorned styles of  modern architecture  and the  International Style  of architecture that followed.

Art Deco took its name, short for  arts décoratifs , from the  Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes  held in Paris in 1925,  though the diverse styles that characterised it had already appeared in Paris and  Brussels  before  World War I.

Arts décoratifs   was first used in France in 1858 in the  Bulletin de la Société française de photographie .  In 1868, the  Le Figaro   newspaper used the term  objets d'art décoratifs   for objects for stage scenery created for the  Théâtre de l'Opéra.  In 1875, furniture designers, textile, jewellers, glass-workers, and other craftsmen were officially given the status of artists by the French government. In response, the  École royale gratuite de dessin   (Royal Free School of Design), founded in 1766 under King  Louis XVI  to train artists and artisans in crafts relating to the fine arts, was renamed the  École nationale des arts décoratifs  ( National School of Decorative Arts). It took its present name, ENSAD (École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs ), in 1927.

At the 1925 Exposition, architect  Le Corbusier  wrote a series of articles about the exhibition for his magazine  L'Esprit Nouveau , under the title "1925 EXPO. ARTS. DÉCO.", which were combined into a book,  L'art décoratif d'aujourd'hui   (Decorative Art Today). The book was a spirited attack on the excesses of the colourful, lavish objects at the Exposition, and on the idea that practical objects such as furniture should not have any decoration at all; his conclusion was that "Modern decoration has no decoration".

The actual term  art déco   did not appear in print until 1966, in the title of the first modern exhibition on the subject, held by the Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris,  Les Années 25 : Art déco, Bauhaus, Stijl, Esprit nouveau , which covered the variety of major styles in the 1920s and 1930s.  The term was then used in a 1966 newspaper article by Hillary Gelson in  The Times   (London, 12 November), describing the different styles at the exhibit.

Art Deco gained currency as a broadly applied stylistic label in 1968 when historian  Bevis Hillier  published the first major academic book on it,  Art Deco of the 20s and 30s .  He noted that the term was already being used by art dealers, and cites  The Times   (2 November 1966) and an essay named  Les Arts Déco   in  Elle   magazine (November 1967) as examples. In 1971, he organized an exhibition at the  Minneapolis Institute of Arts, which he details in his book  The World of Art Deco .

Society of Decorative Artists (1901–1945)

The emergence of Art Deco was closely connected with the rise in status of decorative artists, who until late in the 19th century were considered simply as artisans. The term  arts décoratifs   had been invented in 1875, giving the designers of furniture, textiles, and other decoration official status. The  Société des artistes décorateurs   (Society of Decorative Artists), or SAD, was founded in 1901, and decorative artists were given the same rights of authorship as painters and sculptors. A similar movement developed in Italy. The first international exhibition devoted entirely to the decorative arts, the  Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte Decorativa Moderna , was held in  Turin  in 1902. Several new magazines devoted to decorative arts were founded in Paris, including  Arts et décoration   and  L'Art décoratif moderne . Decorative arts sections were introduced into the annual salons of the  Sociéte des artistes français , and later in the  Salon d'Automne . French nationalism also played a part in the resurgence of decorative arts, as French designers felt challenged by the increasing exports of less expensive German furnishings. In 1911, SAD proposed a major new international exposition of decorative arts in 1912. No copies of old styles would be permitted, only modern works. The exhibit was postponed until 1914; and then, because of the war, until 1925, when it gave its name to the whole family of styles known as "Déco".

Art Deco was not a single style, but a collection of different and sometimes contradictory styles. In architecture, Art Deco was the successor to and reaction against Art Nouveau, a style which flourished in Europe between 1895 and 1900, and also gradually replaced the  Beaux-Arts  and  neoclassical  that were predominant in European and American architecture. In 1905  Eugène Grasset  wrote and published  Méthode de Composition Ornementale, Éléments Rectilignes,   in which he systematically explored the decorative (ornamental) aspects of geometric elements, forms, motifs and their variations, in contrast with (and as a departure from) the undulating Art Nouveau style of  Hector Guimard, so popular in Paris a few years earlier. Grasset stressed the principle that various simple geometric shapes like triangles and squares are the basis of all compositional arrangements. The reinforced-concrete buildings of Auguste Perret and Henri Sauvage, and particularly the  Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, offered a new form of construction and decoration which was copied worldwide.

In decoration, many different styles were borrowed and used by Art Deco. They included pre-modern art from around the world and observable at the  Musée du Louvre,  Musée de l'Homme  and the  Musée national des Arts d'Afrique et d'Océanie. There was also popular interest in archaeology due to excavations at  Pompeii,  Troy, and the tomb of the 18th dynasty Pharaoh  Tutankhamun. Artists and designers integrated motifs from  ancient Egypt,  Africa,  Mesopotamia,  Greece,  Rome, Asia,  Mesoamerica  and Oceania with  Machine Age  elements.

Other styles borrowed included Russian  Constructivism  and Italian  Futurism, as well as Orphism,  Functionalism, and  Modernism  in general.  Art Deco also used the clashing colours and designs of Fauvism, notably in the work of Henri Matisse and  André Derain, inspired the designs of art deco textiles, wallpaper, and painted ceramics.  It took ideas from the high fashion vocabulary of the period, which featured geometric designs, chevrons, zigzags, and stylized bouquets of flowers. It was influenced by discoveries in  Egyptology, and growing interest in the Orient and in African art. From 1925 onwards, it was often inspired by a passion for new machines, such as airships, automobiles and ocean liners, and by 1930 this influence resulted in the style called  Streamline Moderne.

Art Deco was associated with both luxury and modernity; it combined very expensive materials and exquisite craftsmanship put into modernistic forms. Nothing was cheap about Art Deco: pieces of furniture included ivory and silver inlays, and pieces of Art Deco jewellery combined diamonds with platinum, jade, coral and other precious materials. The style was used to decorate the first-class salons of ocean liners, deluxe trains, and skyscrapers. It was used around the world to decorate the great movie palaces of the late 1920s and 1930s. Later, after the  Great Depression, the style changed and became more sober.

A good example of the luxury style of Art Deco is the boudoir of the fashion designer  Jeanne Lanvin, designed by  Armand-Albert Rateau  (1882–1938) made between 1922 and 1925. It was located in her house at 16 rue Barbet de Jouy, in Paris, which was demolished in 1965. The room was reconstructed in the Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris. The walls are covered with moulded  lambris   below sculpted bas-reliefs in stucco. The alcove is framed with columns of marble on bases and a plinth of sculpted wood. The floor is of white and black marble, and in the cabinets decorative objects are displayed against a background of blue silk. Her bathroom had a tub and washstand made of sienna marble, with a wall of carved stucco and bronze fittings.

By 1928 the style had become more comfortable, with deep leather club chairs. The study designed by the Paris firm of Alavoine for an American businessman in 1928–30, is now in the  Brooklyn Museum.

By the 1930s, the style had been somewhat simplified, but it was still extravagant. In 1932 the decorator Paul Ruaud made the Glass Salon for Suzanne Talbot. It featured a serpentine armchair and two tubular armchairs by Eileen Gray, a floor of mat silvered glass slabs, a panel of abstract patterns in silver and black lacquer, and an assortment of animal skins.

Powered by SixBit's eCommerce Solution
  • Condition: New

PicClick Insights - 1933 Chicago Worlds Fair Exposition Art Deco Pavilion Advertising Poster 319370 PicClick Exclusive

  •  Popularity - 0 watchers, 0.0 new watchers per day, 4 days for sale on eBay. 0 sold, 1 available.
  •  Best Price -
  •  Seller - 1,650+ items sold. 0% negative feedback. Good seller with good positive feedback and good amount of ratings.

People Also Loved PicClick Exclusive