Cohama
Photomontage print on cotton depicting monuments from the 1939 World's Fair in New York City, including the Trylon and Perisphere, Aviation Building, DuPont Pavilion, Gas Industries Building, Maritime Transport and Commerce Pavilion, RCA Pavilion, Unites States Pavilion, and World's Fair Administration Building. Printed by Cohn-Hall-Marx, known as Cohama, probably screen screens to create halftone shading.
Excellent, unused condition.
Publications
Leigh Wishner, "World's Fair Photomontage," in Cora Ginsburg Modern 2020 (New York), pp. 44–49.
The World’s Fair print, in this colorway, is in the Detroit Institute of Arts and RISD Museum (1995.007); monochromatic blue and burgundy versions are in the Art Institute of Chicago (1942.247 and 1942.248).
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