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Mural by Thomas Hart Benton
Right
Gaston Lachaise's panel
Rockefeller Center Artworks
America's Progress
Jose Maria Sert's (1876-1945)
mural depicts America's develop-
ment over 300 years by uniting
two forces, brain and brawn.
Sert's
Time
mural adorns one
of the ceilings.
British Empire, including sugar
cane, salt, and tobacco.
Intelligence Awakening
Mankind
Some one million tesserae (pieces
of glass enamel) in more than 250
shades create Barry Faulkner's
(1881-1966) mosaic representing
spoken and written words.
Wisdom
The striking
central figure of
Wisdom
by Lee
Lawrie (1877-
1963) grasps a
compass point-
ing to light and
sound waves and is carved on a
screen made of 240 glass blocks.
Portals
Josef Albers' 1961 work of
thin, highly polished, milky-white
and ivory Carrara glass creates a
surface of receding squares that
gives the mural a sense of depth.
America Today
This nine-panel mural painted
in 1931 by Thomas Hart Benton
was commissioned for the New
School University and was on
view there until 1984,
when it was purchased
by the Equitable Group.
Gaston Lachaise's panels
This two-panel work by the
noted American sculptor (1882-
1935) honors the contribution
made by workmen to the
Rockefeller Center's con-
struction, depicting them
at their labors.
Mural with Blue
Brushstrokes
A sign of the continuing
emphasis on art within
Rockefeller Center's new-
er buildings is this giant,
five-story, 70-ft (21-m)
mural by the late master of Pop
Art, Roy Lichtenstein, c.1984-5.
News
This heroic sculpture
by Isamu Noguchi
(1904-88) is cast in
stainless steel. The 10-ton
panel illustrates the tools
of the press, including camera,
telephone, pad, and pencil.
News,
Isamu Noguchi
Industries of the British
Commonwealth
Cast in bronze and finished in
gold leaf, this panel by Carl Paul
Jennewein (1890-1980) depicts
nine major industries of the
Wall Drawing 896
The newest mural, a site-
specific, geometric design created
in 1999 by Sol Lewitt, covers four
walls of the entrance to the head-
quarters of Christie's on 48th St.
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