MAGNIFICENT PAGEANTS OF AIR-SHIPS BEARING WONDERFUL ELECTRIC LIGHTS

WILLIAM A. MACKAY (1876-1939)
MAGNIFICENT PAGEANTS OF AIR-SHIPS BEARING WONDERFUL ELECTRIC LIGHTS
signed WM.A.MACKAY (lower left)
tempera on paper
16 x 12³⁄₄ in. (40.6 x 32.4 cm.) (sight)
Executed circa 1898.

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

St. Nicholas: An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks, April 1898, vol. 25, part 1, no. 6, p. 519, illustrated.
Norman Brosterman, Out of Time: Designs for the Twentieth-Century Future (New York, 2000), pp. 64-65, 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.
Seattle, The Museum of Pop Culture (formerly EMP), Infinite Worlds of Science Fiction, 27 March 2015-31 December 2017.
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.