Can a proposed New Yorker cover be a little too ambitious? Garrett Price depicted familiar scenes from a political convention in a variety of artistic styles and placed them on the spiraling walls of Frank Lloyd Wright's iconic Guggenheim Museum. The resulting hodgepodge doesn't quite work as a convincing political reflection or as an artistic commentary. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum opened its Fifth Avenue site in 1959 so this concept art can provisionally be dated to the summer of 1960, the next Presidential election year. The delegations of Alaska and Hawaii are shown prominently and this was the first Presidential election in which those new states participated.
Spoiler Alert: In the 1960 Presidential election, Democrat John F. Kennedy defeated Republican Richard M. Nixon.
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| Garrett Price Proposed New Yorker cover art, c. 1960 |
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| Garrett Price eBay listing ended March 5, 2017 |
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| eBay Bid History The prize goes to the very last bid—by one second. |
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Spoiler Alert: In the 1960 Presidential election, Democrat John F. Kennedy defeated Republican Richard M. Nixon.
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