U.S. in the 1920s - Slides
 
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Hugh Ferriss for Helmle and Corbett, architects. Study for the Maximum Mass Permitted by the 1916 New York Zoning Law, Stages 1-4, 1922. Joseph Stella, The Voice of the City of New York Interpreted, 1920-1922 (MA, figure 7.68)

Eliel Saarinen, Chicago Tribune Building, Competition entry drawing, 1922.

Louis Lozowick, Window for Lork & Taylor, New York, c. 1926. (MA, figure 8.9)
View of Midtown Manhattan toward the Northwest from Second Ave. and East 39th St. From Left to Right: 10 E. 40th St., (Ludlow & Peabody, 1928); Lefcourt Colonial Building (Charles F. Moyer, 1929); Lincoln Building (J.E.R. Carpenter, 1930); Chanin building (Sloan & Robertson, 1926-29); Chrysler Building (William Van Alen, 1930); New York Central Building (Warren & Wetmore, 1929); and Daily News Building (Howells & Hood, 1929).

Raymond Loewy, Metropolis, 1927.  Advertisement for Saks Fifth Avenue from Vogue, March 15, 1927 (MA, figure 3.25)

Raymond M. Hood, American Radiator Building, New York, 1924.

Abel Faidy, Armchair, 1927 (MA, figure 2.3)

Georgia O'Keefe, Radiator Building, Night, New York, 1927 (Scripps slide library)

Louis W. Rice, "Skyscraper" Tea Service, 1928 (MA, figure 8.18)

Georgia O'Keefe, City Night, 1926 (Scripps slide library)

Walker Evans, "Broadway Composition," 1928-1929 (MA, figure 7.21)

Georgia O'Keefe, New York Night, 1929 (Scripps slide library)

John Storrs, Study in Pure Form (Forms in Space No., 4), c. 1924 (MA, figure 7.29)

Clarles Sheeler, Church Street el, 1920 (Scripps slide library)

Charles Demuth, I Saw the Figure Five in Gold, 1928 (MA, figure 7.73)

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