Looking up at Rockefeller Center and Prometheus (1934 gilded cast bronze sculpture by Paul Manship)
Atlas Holding the Heavens, 1938 (sculpture by Lee Lawrie and Rene Paul Chambellan)
Construction Rockefeller Center
Construction Rockefeller Center
RCA Building
RCA Building
Construction Workers atop Rockefeller Center
Rockefeller Center as seen from the below the Sixth Ave El
1939 Worlds Fair
Window Washer, 1936
Cab Calloway perfroming at The Cotton Club
Radio City Music Hall
"Summer in NY" The Beresford, 211 Central Park West,
"Gothic & Modern" St. Patricks Cathedral & Rockefeller Center (51st St looking East)
Hands of The Roxyettes, Radio City Music Hall
"The Fortissimo Corner" Drums, Roxy Orchestra, Radio City
Bleachers at Yale Bowl - "Fod God, for Country, and for Yale"
Lee Lawrie carving the limestone lelief installed above the 29 West 50th Street entrance
Typewriters, Packard Secretarial School
circa 1933
vintage gelatin silver print
9.5 x 8"
RCA Building Leaning on its Elbow
Circa 1937
Unique photomontage of Rockefeller Center for print
Photo collage with the Waldorf Astoria
Laurence Miller Gallery is pleased to present ROCK – PAPER – SCISSORS, an exhibition featuring forty rare vintage black and white photographs by Wendell MacRae, all made during the 1930’s. These images capture New York City as it emerged from the Depression and experienced an extraordinary building boom, from the completion of the Empire State Building to the massive Rockefeller Center project, completed in 1940.
After an exhibition of his early Modernist work at the pioneering Julien Levy Gallery in 1932, MacRae was hired in 1934 to record the construction of Rockefeller Center, in which he was provided studio space
Among the most striking prints in the exhibition is his large print titled ATLAS, from 1938, featuring the towering bronze sculpture by Lee Lawrie and Rene Paul Chambellan that sits in front of Rockefeller Center on Fifth Avenue and depicts the ancient Greek god Atlas holding the heavens. More intimate views feature the Roxyettes, later to become the Rockettes, performing at Radio City Music Hall, as well as a closeup of Cab Calloway performing at the Cotton Club.
