Name: RICHARD ARBIB (1917-1995)
Brand: FLYING CITY
Price: 800.00 USD
Availability: SoldOut

RICHARD ARBIB (1917-1995)
FLYING CITY
signed R Arbib (lower right)
graphite on paper
21 x 35 in. (53 x 89 cm)
Executed in 1961.

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

Norman Brosterman, Out of Time: Designs for the Twentieth-Century Future (New York, 2000), pp. 48-49, 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.

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Richard Arbib was a prominent industrial designer at General Motors. He submitted this drawing to their pavilion at the 1964-65 World's Fair in New York, the "Futurama" exhibit. The foreground features an assembly line of workers building and supplying the flying city.