Original 1939 New York World's Fair Poster Overhead View of Trylon and Perisphere
- 1937
- Nembhard Culin (1908-1990)
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28 x 39 1/2 inches ~ (71 x 99 cm)$12,000
- Linen backed
Linen backing is the industry standard of conservation. Canvas is stretchered and a sheet of acid free barrier paper is laid down. The poster is then pasted to the acid free paper using an acid free paste. This process is fully reversible and gives support to the poster. A border of linen is left around the poster and can be used by a framer to mount the poster so that nothing touches the poster itself.
The price of this poster includes linen backing.
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The Trylon and Perisphere were two modernistic structures, together known as the "Theme Center," at the center of the New York World's Fair of 1939-1940. Designed by Wallace Harrison.
A colorful bird's-eye view of the Theme Center . . . [showing] fairgoers entering the Perisphere from the Trylon and leaving by the Helicline" (World of Tomorrow p. 195). This poster was published two years prior to the fair, when the plans for the Trylon and Perisphere were first released to the press. It was not part of the later poster design competition to promote the fair, won by Joseph Binder. Nembhard N. Culin was an architect who worked with Frost, Frost & Fenner, a firm that designed several pavilions for the fair. This "nighttime aerial view captures the fair's dramatic, otherworldly nature, and [Culin's] airbrushing creates an appropriate machine-like surface" (Resnick p, 56). This is the rare large format. World of Tomorrow p. 194, Resnick 26, Taschen p. 323.
Text at bottom reads "Copyright 1937, New York World's Fair 1939 Incorporated"Please note slight toning to paper and small restored losses to white border.
