Chicago World's Fair - A Century of Progress Vintage Art Poster

by Rolando Burbon

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Chicago World's Fair - A Century of Progress Vintage Art Poster

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Rolando Burbon

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Painting - Digital Art Reproduction

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Chicago World's Fair - A Century of Progress, 1833 - 1933 - May 27th to November 1st Art Deco Vintage Art Poster

This 1933 Chicago World's Fair Vintage Art Poster shows the current city skyline of the times on the left with a flying plane and futuristic city skyline on the right with flying aircraft which include planes and a dirigible.

Separating these views is a female in art deco dress with her arms out stretched skywards standing on world globe right in the middle.

To her bottom right is an allegorical depiction of science, with a stone like sculpture of an sitting older man with a book in his lap and a test tube in his left hand; and to her bottom left an allegorical depiction of engineering with a stone like sculpture of a young man sitting on a platform with a large gear as he turns a large valve with both hands.

This is a retouched digital art old masters reproduction of a public domain image.

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January 14th, 2021

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