The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of May 13, 2024
Medal Commemorating the Twenty-fifth Anniversary of General Motors (obverse)
1933
(American, 1893–1958)
Diameter: 7.7 cm (3 1/16 in.)
Gift of General Motors Corporation 1934.208.a
© The Edith Luytens and Norman Bel Geddes Foundation, Inc.
Location: not on view
Description
At the 1933 Chicago world’s fair, General Motors championed the automobile industry’s strength and advancement by setting up an actual assembly line in GM’s Hall of Progress pavilion. This medal, designed by Norman Bel Geddes, celebrated the company’s 25th anniversary and was available at the fair.- Coffin, Sarah D., and Stephen Harrison. The Jazz Age: American style in the 1920s. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2017. Reproduced & Mentioned: fig. 262, p. 210
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