and The Great Age of the American Automobile, both organized by the Museum of
Fine Arts, Boston—and is augmented with related period newsreels, TV ads, and
clips from classic films and television programs. Highlights include design drawings, concept sketches, renderings, advertising art, and posters as well as models of
trains, planes, and automobiles that
literally examine how we got here.
Journalist, Laura C. Mallonee,
wrote in her essay, 20th-Century
Models of Speed and Wonder:
“Transportation is one of the few
industries in which design has so
This page (top to bottom): Design for Urich’s Texaco gas station and automotive center, American, about 1970;
Transparent and opaque watercolor over graphite. Oldsmobile Ninety-Eight Holiday Sport Sedan: Model Year 1959, 1958;
Watercolor and gouache on illustration board. Images: Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection.
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