New York World’s Fair of 1939–40

…create a sculpture for the 1939 New York World’s Fair. The piece, The Harp, inspired by James Weldon Johnson’s poem “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” became one of her best known. Unfortunately, it and many other works by Savage were never cast in durable materials and were later lost or…

Early projects included the New York World’s Fair of 1939–40, for which SOM provided master planning and design coordination. The firm also designed a number of fair pavilions in the Art Moderne style—an architectural trend in the 1930s that emphasized horizontal lines, asymmetric facades, rounded edges, and corner or…

…in Chicago (1933–34) and the New York World’s Fair (1939–40) were both exciting examples of Art Deco architecture and fairs designed to take fairgoers’ minds off the Great Depression by suggesting the wonderful future that awaited them once the hard times were over. While the hopefulness of the New York…