67-story, 952-feet tall built in 1932, it was the headquarters for the Cities Services (oil) Company and was the last skyscraper built in Lower Manhattan prior to World War II. At the time it was the 3rd largest building in the world. It has since been converted to a residential building.
A miniature model of the building itself over the entrance.
Greek Titan who gave humans fire-shown in right hand-for which Zeus chained him to a rock for eternity with an eagle preying upon his liver. Gilded bronze by Paul Manship, 1934.
Zodiac ring.
Bronze sculpture of Atlas, Greek mythological Titan (pre–Olympian God), condemned to carry the world on his shoulders. In Rockefeller Center by Lee Lawrie with the help of Rene Paul Chambellan in 1937.
Across the street from St. Patrick’s Cathedral @ 5 Ave. & 50 St.
Nine-foot Atlas carrying a clock four feet in diameter. Wood Carving, painted to appear bronze. Constructed, ca. 1853 by Henry Frederick Metzler. Moved to 5 Ave. 57 St. location in 1940.
In architecture, a telamon is a male figure used as a supporting column. NYC Dept. of Health Building @ 125 Worth Street. By Oscar Bach, 1935.
Art Deco bas relief sculptures. Three metal (and enamel) medallions on the facade of Radio City Music Hall–Rockefeller Center’s entertainment venue– represent the theater’s main activities: Dance, Drama and Song. Each roundel (circular object) is eighteen feet in diameter. Designed by Hildreth Meière, executed by metalsmith Oscar B. Bach, 1932.
Depicts five journalists at the former Associated Press Building. Stainless steel by Isamu Noguchi, 1940
Carved limestone above the 29 West 50th Street entrance of 630 Fifth Avenue. Lee Lawrie with colorist Leon V. Solon, 1937.
According to the Oxford English Living Dictionary, Art Deco is “Shortened from French art décoratif ‘decorative art’, from the 1925 Exposition des Arts décoratifs in Paris. The predominant decorative art style of the 1920s and 1930s, characterized by precise and boldly delineated geometric shapes and strong colours and used most notably in household objects and in architecture.”
An intaglio (engraved in stone) relief carving- Above Channel Gardens Entrance of 620 Fifth Avenue. By architectural sculptor Lee Lawrie with colorist Leon V. Solon, 1933.