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VARIOUS ARTISTS
GROUP OF NINE WORKS: THE FUTURE AS STYLE
various mediums
various sizes
Each executed between 1930-1950.
Provenance
Norman Brosterman (b. 1952), New York.
Acquired by the late owner from the above, 2001.
Literature
Norman Brosterman, Out of Time: Designs for the Twentieth-Century Future (New York, 2000), variously illustrated.
Exhibited
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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1. ALEXANDER LEYDENFROST (1888-1961)
HOUSE OF TOMORROW
charcoal, graphite, color pencil and oil pastel on paper
11 x 14 in.
Executed in 1930.
Published: Ladies Home Journal, April 1931

2. HOWARD M. DUFFIN
ATOMIC POWER PLANT
gouache and pencil on paper
16 x 24 in.
Executed in 1939.
Published: Amazing Stories, October 1939

3. ANONYMOUS
REAR ENGINE CAR/BOAT
pencil on paper
18 × 21 in.
Executed circa 1930s.

4. JOHN T. MCCOY JR. (1905-1995)
REAL PLANES ADD UP TO A DREAM
watercolor and pencil on paper
18 x 24 in.
Executed in 1947.

5. LEO RACKOW (1901-1988)
BUBBLE-TOP CAR
paint on board
22 x 1734 in.
Executed circa 1948.

6. JO GAULT
DREAM CAR CONCEPTS DESIGN
color pencil on paper
1112 x 17 in (sight size)
Executed in 1953.

7. FRED FREEMAN (1907-1988)
U.S. NAVY VS. THE H-BOMB
oil on Masonite
18 x 17 in.
Executed in 1954.

8. RICHARD ARBIB (1917-1995)
CAR OF TOMORROW
mixed media and collage on board
22 x 22 in.
Executed in 1954.
Published: Newsweek, 8 November 1954, illustrated on the front cover.

9. Color print, framed, of Ray Pioch's "Now They're Planning A City in Space," 1956.

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