New York 1939 World's Fair: Medicine and Public Health, Science and Education Building Complex: Facade facing garden court - International Hildreth Meière Association Inc.

(8) The Picnic, 1939

Commissioned by: Mayers, Murray & PhillipMedium: rubber-based paintExecuted by: RambuschNonextant

Detail of map from Official Guide Book – New York World's Fair 1940 showing location of Mayer, Murray & Phillip's Medicine and Public Health, Science and Education Building Complex

To-scale model of the Medicine and Public Health, Science and Education Buildings with the placement of Meière's murals indicated as follows: (1) Modern Medicine (2) Primitive Man and Modern Man (3) Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine and the Dragon of Ignorance (4) Comte de Rochambeau (5) Tadeusz Kosciuszko (6) The Family (7) The School (8) The Picnic (9) Man between the Past and the Future

(8) Medicine and Public Health, Science and Education Building Complex filmed by Hildreth Meière, 1939. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC

On the long facade of the building facing the garden court, Meière designed a mural of The Picnic, with figures painted by Rambusch in rubber base paint. The mural measured fourteen feet high by one hundred ten feet in length. It depicted people actively engaged in various leisure activities from enjoying a picnic to hiking, fishing, dancing, and playing baseball.

Detail of the The Picnic with hikers, men fishing, and baseball players

Detail of The Picnic with swimmers, dancers, and people at a picnic

New York 1939 World's Fair: Medicine and Public Health, Science and Education Building Complex

Flushing, NY

Facade facing garden court

(8) The Picnic, 1939