![]() ![]() In this work, the first of the series and the image that was to greet visitors as they entered the room, a nude showgirl dancer does a sad burlesque, her shadow duplicated in silhouette in a Coney Island funhouse style. We are offering the complete series of ten original concept paintings, each illustrating a nude underworld goddess in sordid intimate engagement with manifestations of modernism, industry and the machine age. ![]() By the following year Blaine was under extensive psychiatric care and dropped completely out of the public eye for the better part of a decade. It’s unlikely Blaine or MacAlister ever truly expected the murals to be completed, but perhaps he did. Blaine treated each individual painting in the series as its own completed stand alone artwork, with painstaking detail. Offering a dark and pessimistically erotic commentary on the skyscraper landscape that was taking over Manhattan, it’s unclear if Blaine and MacAlister believed these murals would ever be approved, or if the preliminary artworks were exclusively created as an oblique social satire. Christopher Hudson created a series of illustrations which were intended to become murals for the studio or showroom of noted New York City interior designer Paul MacAlister. In the late 1930s, avant-garde illustrator Mahlon Blaine, working under the pseudonym G. ![]() Full view of gouache painting The artist’s initial lower left for “G. ![]()
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