The American Automobile Scene is an engaging exploration of automobile design in America from the 1920s through the 1940s. The exhibition, which examines the role of the automobile in shaping modern, American culture presents skillfully and elegantly rendered artworks for concept and production cars; sculpted car models; drawings for automobile showrooms, filling stations, bridges, and roadways; and illustrations for automobile advertisements. These original artworks, together with advertising brochures, auto industry periodicals, and other printed ephemera provide audiences with the opportunity to explore how designers and manufacturers of automobiles influenced consumer perceptions. They also convey the social, political, and economic context of this volatile time period characterized by the Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression through the Second World War.

FEATURED IMAGE
Brochure, Plymouth for 1937, 1937
Published by Plymouth Motor Company
USA
The Wolfsonian-FIU, Purchase, Acquisitions Fund
XC2004.02.10.5

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