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fi '*iI 'Art ilt;Roerich Museum.IUntil February there will be a fa?-♦cinating display of the architectural designs and illustration.' of Hugh Ferrissat the Roerich Art Center. 103rd Streetand Riverside. The drawings are technically perfect and therefore impressive'imply as^designs. but in addition tlt;iithis■thee have great intercH from their subject matter. There is a moving studyMof the evolution -of the modern skyscraper. built in accordance with the zoning laws of the modern metropolis. Then, there are various apparently quite insane dream- of the architect about theGclmalt;hiPlt;alHatthLmake-up and appearance of the city ofthe future. Perhaps even more interesting to us are the beautifully done impressions of sonic of our most famou-buildings of the present—the Empire State rises in majesty, the Chryslertower glitters through a luminous hazeof vibrant shadow, and there appearalso even more extravagant examples of public buildings of other cities; thesetorm a tartling but logical transition to the wonders of the “Remodelled City,1’ with its Vehicular Planes.*’ spanned by great masses of buildings. “PedestrianPhttlGtlihlt;7.1cefroidtBoulevards. the whole embellished by terrifying hut beautiful visions of towering structures of “Steel and ■ Glass.”The series of “Spaced Skyscrapers” leadus farther into the mathematician’sworld of incredible - truths: the “Skyscraper Bridge” is particularlv notable.The Museum is/also showing oils, water colors-and drawings by Mary Cecil Allen. Out of a show of thirty-sevenexamples,' only two appealed with any amount of force/, these were “Girl inWhite,’’ and the drawing of a girl, 'No.16. Other works, have a certain amountoi color, absolute, and local, but that! with a sort of novelty in the' distorteddrawing, was their only claim to atten-* * • - ■ *lion. -•I j -•1 **M. A?gifrH-oinidlt;inai:firteRS,t177wgiC• .»TfcA
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Barnard Bulletin
New York, New York, US
Fri, Feb 26, 1932
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