Sculpture for Pageant of Transportation

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Summary

Junked car sculpture for the Department of Transportation "Cars of America--Tomorrow" exhibition on the Mall was actually a car of yesterday, and is now a work of art. Smithsonian sculptors James Fisher (Mechanical & Civil Engineering) and Ann Rushforth (Office of Public Affairs) pose with the untitled figure they created from parts of a wrecked car.

Subject

  • Office of Public Affairs
  • United States Dept. of Transportation
  • National Museum of American History (U.S.) (NMAH)

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes

Featured in TORCH, October 1968

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 371 Box 1 Folder October 1968

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

1994

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

  • Women
  • Sculpture
  • Rushforth, Ann
  • Transportation
  • Exhibitions
  • Cars of America--Tomorrow (Exhibition)
  • Motor vehicles
  • Automobiles
  • Sculptors
  • Fisher, James
  • National Museum of American History (U.S.)

Form/Genre

  • Photographic print
  • Exhibit

ID Number

94-2473

Physical description

Color: Black and White; Size: 8w x 10h; Type of Image: Exhibit; Medium: Photographic print

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