Feature Image: East side (detail), Marc Chagall, Four Seasons, 1972, Chase Tower Plaza, Chicago. 5/2014 7.44 mb 92%.
Composed of thousands of inlaid chips in over 250 colors, The Four Seasons (1972) mosaic in Chase Tower Plaza, Chicago, by Marc Chagall (1887-1985) portrays scenes of Chicago. It features Chagall’s modernist art informed by the Russian-Jewish artist’s heritage and images found in his paintings, including birds, fish, flowers, suns and human figures. Chagall observed that “the seasons represent human life, both physical and spiritual, at its different ages.”
East side (detail), Marc Chagall, Four Seasons, 1972, Chase Tower Plaza, Chicago. 5/2014 5.19 mbEast side (detail), Marc Chagall, Four Seasons, 1972, Chase Tower Plaza, Chicago. 12/2017 1.35 mb
Four days after recording Heartbreak Hotel in January 1956 for RCA records in Nashville, Tennessee, 21-year-old Elvis Presley went out and bought a brand-new red-and-white 1956 Harley Davidson KH. Elvis was not yet famous but had already developed a signature style for which this motor bike formed a part. Having affinities with the 1952 KRTT Road Racer OHV V-Twin owned by famed H-D racer Brad Andres, Elvis’ H-D KH had plenty of style.
Within two months, in mid-March 1956, Heartbreak Hotel, a song co-written by Presley, was climbing the charts and Elvis was on his way to becoming one of rock ‘n’ roll’s first superstars. For the rest of his life and career, Presley remained a Harley-Davidson enthusiast as he helped forge that connection between motorcycles and rock ‘n roll which seemed to be instinctive and permanent.
6/20187/2015Warrenville, IL. 7/2018 Milwaukee, WI. 1932 Model G Servi-Car Side-Valve V-Twin. Harley-Davidson Museum. 6/2018
The 1932 Model G Servi-Car Side-Valve V-Twin ran for 41 years and offered high crown fenders and a cargo hold that packed 500 pounds.
