[Design proposal for the Puck Theater (New York City). Perspective] – Historic Poster Reproduction
![[Design proposal for the Puck Theater (New York City). Perspective], [ca. 1935] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/ba/ba97dcd93d89-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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[Design proposal for the Puck Theater (New York City). Perspective]
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A perspective rendering of a proposed design for the Puck Theater in New York City, this drawing shows the building as its architects hoped it would look rather than as it was built. Made in pencil and colored pencil on tracing paper, it reflects a common method of the 1930s, when architects used semitransparent sheets to refine lines and present a theater's street-level facade and interior to clients. Movie houses of this period often drew on Moderne styling, with streamlined forms and bold geometry, and renderings like this one reveal how designers imagined those spaces before construction began.
| Created / published | [ca. 1935] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing on trace : graphite and colored pencil. |
| Genre | Perspective projections 1930-1940.Drawings Color 1930-1940. |
| Notes | Title devised by Library staff. Published in: Eyes of the nation : a visual history of the United States / Vincent Virga and curators of the Library of Congress ; historical commentary by Alan Brinkley. New York : Knopf, 1997. |
| Subjects | Motion picture theaters--New York (State)--New York--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,473 × 1,177 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-218695 |
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