Detail View: Design Library Image Collection: One Rockefeller Plaza
|
Accession Number:
|
136614
|
|
Order Title:
|
Archivision Base Collection--16,370 images
|
|
Type of View:
|
partialView
|
|
View Title:
|
49th Street Entrance; "Progress" by Lee Lawrie, 1937
|
|
Date of View:
|
6/1/1994
|
|
Image description:
|
Intaglio carved limestone with polychrome painting and gilding. Figure of Columbia holds divine fire in one hand and an olive branch in the other. Pegasus symbolizes inspiration and the eagle symbolizes power.
|
|
Image Rights:
|
¿ Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
|
|
Source Institution:
|
Archivision, Inc.
|
|
Collection:
|
Archivision Base Collection
|
|
Culture:
|
American
|
|
Work Types:
|
Architecture; commercial / industrial structures; office buildings
|
|
Work Types:
|
buildings; multistory buildings; high-rise buildings; skyscrapers
|
|
Related Work Title:
|
Rockefeller Center; partOf
|
|
Preferred Title:
|
One Rockefeller Plaza
|
|
Agent Display:
|
Attilio Piccirilli (American sculptor, 1866-1945 ); Carl Paul Jennewein (American sculptor, 1890-1978); Lee Oskar Lawrie (American sculptor, 1877-1961); Raymond M. Hood (American architect, 1881-1934)
|
|
Date:
|
ca. 1932-1937 (creation)
|
|
Materials:
|
Indiana limestone; gilding
|
|
Technique:
|
carving (processes)
|
|
Measurement:
|
608,000 ft2 (area)
|
|
Alternate Title:
|
1 Rockefeller Plaza
|
|
Alternate Title:
|
Time-Life Building
|
|
Locations:
|
New York, New York, United States
|
|
Location Type:
|
(site)
|
|
Style/Period:
|
Art Deco
|
|
Style/Period:
|
Twentieth century
|
|
Classification:
|
Architecture
|