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RADEBAUGH - Vintage Mid Century Futurism Print - Legendary Futurist Imagineer Arthur Radebaugh - Miami Modern MiMo SUPERMARIONATIONTreasures from THE RADEBAUGH COLLECTION at Lost Highways Archive & Research Library. By exclusive arrangement with The Grand Review. Print size 24 x 20, and consciously formatted to work with a standard size store bought frame, or custom framed as you see fit. One of the most amazing journeys I've ever taken in a long life hardly lacking in adventure was the discovery of a lost portfolio of work by the futurist illustrator, Arthur Radebaugh, and the
Treasures from THE RADEBAUGH COLLECTION at Lost Highways Archive & Research Library. By exclusive arrangement with The Grand Review.Print size 24 x 20, and consciously formatted to work with a standard size store bought frame, or custom framed as you see fit.
One of the most amazing journeys I've ever taken in a long life hardly lacking in adventure was the discovery of a lost portfolio of work by the futurist illustrator, Arthur Radebaugh, and the road we took to resurrect him from obscurity to the place of honor he deserves.
Radebaugh Resurrection Part 1
Walk with me back to the early 90s... There was a big commercial photography studio, old and fun if also a little scary, on a numbered street less than two blocks south of the Rodin Museum in Philadelphia. The owner was retiring and the building was going to be torn down. He specialized in supersized prints, so if you needed a huge photo of Vendell Vilkie for a convention at the old Civic Center near U of P, you came to this fellow. There were rooms that were, effectively, the insides of cameras, and he had a magnificent horizontal enlarger that was so Brobdingnagian it ran in and out on narrow gauge railroad tracks. Oh, that damned enlarger! I spent so much time on the phone calling every president of every local art college, begging them to come take it away for free, just to have as an object to behold... a technical object of wonder. I failed. The building was torn down on top of it...
Anyway, I was buying flat files for me and drafting and work tables for friends, and all sorts of crazy ancient practical items, all the while throwing boxes of large format negatives that I found all around the building onto the pyre with the rest of the loot. We settled on a price for the pile, I loaded it all into the nutty old mail truck I had at the time and took it back to what was my version of the Batcave at the time... the old Mr. Softee garage at the north edge of South Philly. The negatives totaled out at a modest estimate of approximately 14,000 negs, not kidding, and I put them into a safer, saner storage situation quickly.
Move forward a few years. A friend in between successes asks if I have any worthy project that'll get him through a month's rent and bills. The boxes full of negatives stuffed behind vintage portable televisions on pallet shelves in the rear catacombs of Lost Highways Archive & Research Library let out a crazy Hound of the Baskervilles howl...
It didn't hurt that we had three light tables.
He dumped and dug and shuffled and rubbed his temples and complained, but sure enough he gave everything a respectable triage. Then he came trotting up to the front, wide eyed, and somewhere between breathless and giggling in a worrisome sort of way suggested I come over to the big table right this instant.
There, spread out and glowing, was a surprising number of full page size negatives of floating houses, robot forklifts, swooping skyways with rockets flying hither and yon. What the hell? Most of them were signed and dated. Radebaugh.
Radebaugh?
End Part 1....................................
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Every print we deem exciting enough to present to the public via our Etsy store or available here at our studio has gone through a number of steps. The first of those is always discovering and falling in love with an obscure image, always an original that we can hold in our hands. That image is speaking to us, sometime screaming “Don’t leave me here. See what I am, what I was, what I can be, what I SHOULD be!”
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