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49th Street Entrance; "The Joy of Life" by Attilio Piccirilli, 1937
Title:
One Rockefeller Plaza
Alternate Title:
Time-Life Building
View:
49th Street Entrance; "The Joy of Life" by Attilio Piccirilli, 1937
Related Work:
part of Rockefeller Center
Date:
ca. 1932-1937 (creation)
Style/Period:
Art Deco; Twentieth century
Location:
site: New York, New York, United States
Location Note:
1 Rockefeller Plaza
GPS:
+40.758039-73.978849
Culture:
American
Measurements:
Materials:
Work Types:
Description:
This was the original Time- Life Building, before the publishing company moved west to 1271 Avenue of the Americas. An original tenant was General Dynamics, for whom the building was briefly named. The large wooden sculptures by Carl Milles on the west wall of its lobby feature a woodsman in the middle piece of the triptych, above which a mechanical bird chirps every hour. The original bird was a clarino, or Mexican thrush, that belonged to Bronx Zoo president Fairfield Osborn. NBC engineers were dispatched to Osborn’s house on East Sixty-First Street to record the clarino’s singing for posterity. (Source: Rockefeller Center [website]; http://www.rockefellercenter.com/)
View Description:
Polychromed and gilded limestone bas-relief. The subject features Bacchus and wine as the joy of life.
Classification:
Technique:
carving (processes); construction (assembling)
Image Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
Vendor ID:
1A1-RH-RC-F2
MDID Identifier:
4615
Archivision Set:
Archivision Base Collection
Collection:
Archivision Base Module
Record created:
June 7, 2018
Last modified:
Nov. 1, 2018
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