Theodore Roosevelt Grade School - preliminary illustration

 

Zuckerman

 

c. 1925  

gouache and metallic acrylic on illustration board 

7 3/4 x 9 3/8" image size 

unsigned 

1 of 1 unique 

titled in pencil, lower margin 

 

pebbled illustration board 

 

 

21792 

SOLD

p>From a series of what we presume were preliminary storyboard illustrations for a large event. Some of these were signed simply "Zuckerman" but the origins and dates of the artist are as yet unknown. With the ultra-stylized Art Deco look, the references to Americana and Hollywood, and the recurring fashions throughout, we suspect these might have been created in preparation for the famously failed Los Angeles World's Fair of 1923: American Hisorical Review and Motion Picture Exposition.

Never fully realized, the Fair was meant to expound upon the founding of the United States, focusing on--and hopefully boosting--one of its most popular industries, which had recently suffered several deeply damaging scandals--the Hollywood motion picture complex.