October 30, 2008 - January 4, 2009
Raymond Loewy was the most prominent industrial designer of the 20th century. As he once said, his firms created everything from "lipsticks to locomotives." Raymond Loewy: Designs for a Consumer Culture was recently described by the Philadelphia Enquirer as "one of the most enjoyable exhibitions of its kind that one could expect to see." This exhibition showcases Loewy's work, placing it in the wider context of the shaping of a modern look for consumer culture. His career is brought to life by an array of original drawings, models, products, advertisements, photographs, and rare film footage of Loewy at work.
Friday, November 21st @ 5:30 p.m.
Oregon Historical Society Pavilion
Free to OHS Members
Raymond Loewy and Andy Warhol: Commerce, Culture, and Art in 20th-Century America
A lecture presented by the curator of the Raymond Loewy exhibit, Dr. Glenn Porter, Director Emeritus, Hagley Museum and Library in Wilmington, Delaware.
America’s consumer culture was shaped in significant part by the work of the advertisers, industrial designers, and commercial artists who defined much of the nation’s visual landscape in the 20th century. Pioneer industrial designer Raymond Loewy and Pop artist Andy Warhol both spent a full decade as highly successful commercial artists before moving to their principal careers in industrial design and in art. Dr. Porter will examine the commercial art and subsequent careers of these two major figures, who reflected and influenced broad patterns of cultural change in America from the 1920s through the 1960s.
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