Mid Century Futurist Arthur Radebaugh - Space Age Zeppelin Mooring Mast

Part of futurist illustrator Arthur Radebaugh's Lost Portfolio as found in Philadelphia in the late 1990s in the collection of Lost Highways Archive & Research Library.  This rediscovered portfolio became the heart of an exhibit called RADEBAUGH, THE FUTURE WE WERE PROMISED.  Opening first in the Old City neighborhood of Philadelphia, just across the street from Benjamin Franklin's house, the Radebaugh exhibit received wide coverage on the new world wide web.  It traveled to Nantes in the Loire Valley of France, then was recurated by cultural anthropologist Jared Rosenbaum to go on to further acclaim as the inaugural exhibit of the new facility for the National Automotive History Collection in Detroit.

DIRIGIBLE MOORING MAST

Note that the portfolio of Radebaugh's works, as found, came to us as oversized negatives.  Most we reversed back to positives, but a few of them we left as negs and added color as we saw fit.  Understand how much genuine, rip roaring fun this was as we were working with material that was both amazing and unknown.  We felt free and took chances .

No one ever actually created an urban dirigible mooring mast, but Radebaugh, the original 'imagineer' showed us how it could be done.

• Handmade item
• Materials: Art stock enhanced matte paper, archival ink
• Made to order
• Only ships within United States.

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