dieser beitrag wurde verfasst in: englisch (eng/en)
künstler: Raymond J. Schwab, Robert Bruce Tague
titel: Music in the Air
jahr: 1934–35
adresse: WGN Broadcasting Studio Two, Tribune Tower Building, 435 North Michigan Ave, Chicago IL, USA
+: Oil paint directly on wall. Removed in 1947
«In 1935 the Chicago Tribune's radio station, WGN, built an addition adjacent to Tribune Tower to house its broadcasting studios. The newspaper chose the designers for each of four studios through a competition. Ernest Grunsfeld, architect of the Adler Planetarium, winner of the first prize, was awarded the design of Studio One. Two young postgraduate students at Armour Institute of Technology, which became Illinois Institute of Technology about 1941, were given honorable mention and awarded the design of Studio Two. Their submission included a mural titled Music in the Air, described in the Chicago Tribune as "studied planes done in vivid coloring, forming an excellent background." Its colors were reds, yellows, and greens, accented by black and white. Armour Institute architectural classes were held in the Art Institute building in the 1930s, and in 1935 Fernand Leger, who also submitted a design to the competition, had a one-man exhibition at the museum, which the students certainly saw. Raymond Schwab and Robert Tague were directed to enlarge their modernistic mural and paint it themselves on the east wall of Studio Two. A wide luminous frame that surrounded the mural provided a dramatic setting, with its lighting concealed behind special louvers. Further emphasis came from the modernistic touch of two bands of lighting strips that also provided illumination for the actors and musicians who used the studio. According to a 1947 article, Studio Two was replaced that year by new facilities for other broadcasting needs, and the mural disappeared.» (Lackritz Gray 2001, p. 374)