Paris 1901 - Geneva, Switzerland 1966
Homme et aigle, ou Puissance de la locomotive [Transport ferroviaire]
Man and Eagle, or Locomotive Power [Transportation by rail]
1936
colored cement
Photo credit: courtesy Jim Parsons and David Bush, Fair Park Deco
© Artist : Fair Use (Section 107, Copyright Act 1976)
Provenance
- 1936, erected for the Centennial Exposition, a World's Fair celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Texas Republic
- 2000, restored by Laboratory for Conservation of Fine Arts, Englewood, New Jersey
Bibliography
- 2012 Parsons and Bush
Jim Parsons and David Bush, Fair Park Deco: Art and Architecture of the Texas Centennial Exposition, Foreword by Virginia Savage McAlester and Willis Cecil Winters, Fort Worth, TCU Press, 2012, p. 43 - 2013 Meslay
Olivier Meslay, "Fair Park à Dallas, joyau de l'architecture des Années Trente", L'Estampille-L'Objet d'Art, janvier 2013, p. 62-69
Comment
- See text about Fair Park by Anne-Laure Garrec, graciously translated by Gina Granger, under the tab Spotlight on....