Art of the Draw: Advertising Posters
from the McCormick-International Harvester Collection
ICONOGRAPHY POSTER
New York World's Fair
n
a series of posters from the late 1930s, International Harvester
used images of engineering marvels to enhance the reputation of
its industrial equipment. This poster shows the Trylon and
Perisphere, the signature buildings of the 1939 New York World's
Fair. Together, they became popular symbols of modernism and
progress.
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Photolithograph, 1938
Unknown Printer (United States)
for
International Harvester Co. (Chicago)
38" x 28"
WHI 3589
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