Lucienne Bloch
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Lucienne Bloch was a Swiss-born American artist. She was best known for her murals and for her association with the Mexican artist Diego Rivera, for whom she produced the only existing photographs of
Archives of American Art Lucienne Bloch painting The cycle of a woman's life 1979
The Cycle of a Woman's Life, 1936 print
Rockefeller Center
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Rockefeller Center is a complex of 19 commercial buildings covering 22 acres between 48th Street and 51st Street in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. The 14 original Art Deco buildi
Lucienne Bloch
…Rivera, for whom she produced the only existing photographs of Rivera's mural Man at the Crossroads, painted in 1933 and destroyed in January 1934 at Rockefeller Center in New York City. Bloch was born on January 5, 1909 in Geneva, Switzerland, the daughter of composer, Ernest Bloch. In 1917, the Bloch family immigrated…
View from the northeast of 30 Rockefeller Plaza at the heart of the complex in 2007
Rockefeller Center originated as a plan to replace the old Metropolitan Opera House (pictured).
Construction progress in December 1933
The iconic photograph Lunch atop a Skyscraper depicts workers resting for a meal during the construction of 30 Rockefeller Plaza.