2002-2003 Hagley
Museum Show
Loewy exhibit to remain open through Aug. 3
he Hagley Museum and Library’s exhibit on
Loewy has been extended through August 3 for
all Avanti and Loewy fans that have not yet seen
this excellent exhibit (see Avanti, Issue 119 & 120). The
show features artifacts, photographs, advertisements,
drawings, and films that trace his fifty-year career.
Loewy designed streamlined locomotives for the
Pennsylvania Railroad (the Hagley Library has
extensive records from the Pennsylvania Railroad), the
Lucky Strike cigarette packet, the postwar Studebaker,
and countless more.
The Philadelphia Inquirer described the exhibit as
“one of the most enjoyable exhibitions of its kind that one
could ever expect to see.” Hagley acquired at auction
approximately fifty linear feet of materials from the
archives of Raymond Loewy. The Loewy papers will be
opened for research as soon as they are organized and
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conserved, in late 2004 or in 2005.
The Hagley Museum and Library is located in
Wilmington, Delaware, and can be reached by phone at
(302) 658-2400, ext. 317.
The Hagley Museum and Library is a nonprofit
educational institution dedicated to the preservation and
understanding of America’s business and technological
history. Visit Hagley at www.hagley.org
(See related story, page 32-33)
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About the art: AOAI member Edward Purinton attended the Loewy
show with his son in late December, but saw that no poster or art from
the exhibit was available, so he made his own.
Purinton, a high school graphics communication instructor, gathered
several photos of Loewy and Avanti photos and drawings and produced
his own poster design.
Spring/Summer 2003
Issue 122