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Two Mural Panels For The Ziegfeld Theatre, The Joy of Life
This is a Two Mural Panels for the Ziegfeld Theatre. It was painted by Lillian Gaertner.
This object is not part of the Cooper Hewitt's permanent collection. It was able to spend time at the museum on loan from The Collection of Richard H. Driehaus, Chicago as part of The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s.
With harlequin figures in floral bowers, these mural panels epitomize the interest in color and fantasy that Joseph Urban brought to his opera, theater, and film designs. The Joy of Life was used as a mural on the Ziegfeld Theatre’s proscenium wall.
It is credited The Collection of Richard H. Driehaus, Chicago.
- Drawing, Design for a bracket or sconce lighting fixture for the Fisher...
- gouache on paper.
- Smithsonian Libraries, Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Library.
- 43.2016.3
- Drawing, Design for Roof Garden, Hotel Gibson, Cincinnati, OH
- pen and black ink, brush and watercolor, white gouache, gold paint, graphite....
- Museum purchase through gift of Carola Walton in memory of her mother Dorothy....
- 1990-126-1
Its dimensions are
H x W (overall): 518.5 × 729 × 1.6 cm (17 ft. 1/8 in. × 23 ft. 11 in. × 5/8 in.) H x W (middle left panel): 518.3 × 182.9 × 1.6 cm, 58.1 kg (17 ft. 1/16 in. × 6 ft. × 5/8 in., 128 lb.) H x W x D (middle right panel): 518.5 × 180.3 × 1.6 cm (17 ft. 1/8 in. × 5 ft. 11 in. × 5/8 in.) Weight: 128 pounds
"East St. Louis Toodle-Oo," Duke Ellington (1927)
“East St. Louis Toodle-Oo” was recorded three times within 1927 by Duke Ellington. The third version of the piece seemed to match trumpeter Bubber Miley’s description of the work: “This is...
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s.
