Year of creation | 2016 |
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Dimensions | 91 W × 76 H × 7 D cm |
Type of art | painting |
Style | fine art |
Genre | history |
Materials | oil, canvas |
The Lockheed Constellation (“Connie”) is a propeller-driven, four-engine airliner built by Lockheed Corporation between 1943 and 1958 in Burbank, California. Lockheed built 856 in numerous models—all with the same triple-tail design and dolphin-shaped fuselage. The Constellation series was the first pressurized-cabin civil airliner series to go into widespread use. TWA, owned at the time by Howard Hughes, was the first airline to acquire the Constellation. Its pressurized cabin enabled large numbers of commercial passengers to fly well above most bad weather for the first time, thus significantly improving the general safety and ease of air-travel. Three of them served as the presidential aircraft for Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Each piece of my art has historical significance, so there is always a unique and fascinating story to tell about the painting. In today’s world of mass produced “sameness” there was a time when we created modes of transportation that were functional but also works of art. I take these unique and beautiful objects and place them where they were seen and shined in the past.