Concept Car
Object Details
- Designer
- Pete Wozena, American, 1918–2006
- Office of
- General Motors, Detroit, Michigan, USA
- Description
- On black ground, a futuristic concept car, with deep red body and chrome accents, the front bumpers resembling rockets or bullets, resting on a six-footed stand comprised of perforated metal trestles. Inside the one-passenger vehicle sits a male figure wearing a suit and hat, enclosed inside a curving 180-degree-view windshield. In the background, a reticulated, openwork metallic sphere at right, and indications of columns or towers at left.
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of Paul Herzan and from General Acquisitions Endowment Fund
- 1955
- Accession Number
- 2017-18-8
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- transportation
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Color pencil, brush and gouache on paper
- Dimensions
- H x W: 50 × 65.1 cm (19 11/16 × 25 5/8 in.)
- Mat: 71.1 × 91.4 cm (28 × 36 in.)
- made in
- Michigan, USA
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_2017-18-8
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4d5118dce-ecab-418e-9f41-5ee0830d38d2
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