A Century of Progress

Vintage postcards, fluorescent card on canvas

41 x 46cm

SOLD

A collection of original, vintage U.S. postcards arranged on painted canvas with a cut three-dimensional element. The work is mounted behind glass within a white, wooden frame.

These postcards have been collected from multiple sources and arranged to form a geometric pattern. The sunken rectangular centres leave behind raised frames which mirror the frame of the artwork itself and fluorescent card has been applied to the reverse of the frames.

The repeated images depicted in the top row are of the monumental but temporary structure, the Havoline Thermometer, designed and built for the Chicago World’s Fair of 1933. The remaining postcards feature an aerial view of the fair with the Havoline Thermometer seen in the distance.