SCIENCE PLANS A NEW TOWER OF BABEL SIX MILES HIGH

LEE CONREY (1883-1976)
SCIENCE PLANS A NEW TOWER OF BABEL SIX MILES HIGH
signed LEE CONREY (lower right)
gouache and graphite on paper
27³⁄₄ x 10 in. (70.5 x 25.4 cm.) (sight)
Executed circa 1935.

Norman Brosterman (b. 1952), New York.
Acquired by the late owner from the above, 2001.

"Science Plans a New Tower of Babel Six Miles High", The American Weekly, 24 February 1935, illustrated.
Norman Brosterman, Out of Time: Designs for the Twentieth-Century Future, (New York, 2000), p. 41, illustrated.

Tacoma, Washington, Washington State Historical Society, Out of Time: Designs for the 20th Century Future, 11 November 2000-7 January 2001; also, Lansing, Michigan, Michigan Historical Museum, 27 January-25 March 2001; New York, New York Historical Society, 14 April-10 June 2001; Laramie, Wyoming, University of Wyoming Art Museum, 30 June-26 August 2001; Fargo, North Dakota, Plains Art Museum, 1 December 2001-27 January 2002; Springfield, Massachusetts, 5 October-1 December 2002.
London, UK, Barbican Centre, Into the Unknown: A Journey through Science Fiction, 3 June-1 September 2017; also, Athens, Greece, Onassis Cultural Center, 9 October 2017-14 January 2018; Odense, Denmark, Kunstmuseum Brandts, 28 September 2018-17 February 2019; Rotterdam, Netherlands, Kunsthal Rotterdam, 16 March-30 June 2019.