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Worlds Fair Book of the Fair

Name: Worlds Fair Book Of The Fair | Alexander Raymond Katz
Brand: RoGallery
SKU: 72243

Alexander Raymond Katz

$34,000

Hungarian/American (1895–1974)

Date: 1934
Pastel on Paper, Signed "Sandor"
Image Size: 20.75 x 14 inches
Size: 21 x 15 in. (53.34 x 38.1 cm)
Frame Size: 30 x 23.5 inches

$34,000

Framed

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about Worlds Fair Book of the Fair

This is the original drawing for the cover of the 1934 Chicago World’s Fair Guide Book by A Raymond Katz (1895 - 1974) aka "Sandor".

This design was used in variation on the guide book, posters and other advertising ephemera for the Fair. The design is very much of its era using colorful Art Deco motifs.

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About The Artist: Alexander Raymond Katz

A WPA muralist, illustrator and modernist painter especially known for paintings with Jewish themes and narrative American scene works, Alexander Katz had a career primarily in Chicago. He also did abstract compositions in black and white and interior theatre decoration. Raymond Katz was born in Kassa, Hungary, and came to the United States in 1909. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. In the late...

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About The Medium: Pastel

An art medium in the form of a stick, consisting of pure powdered pigment and a binder. The pigments used in pastels are the same as those used to produce all colored art media, including oil paints; the binder is of a neutral hue and low saturation.

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