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[Dream of Venus Song Rough Draft]

Collection: Collection on the 1939-1940 New York World's Fair
Date: 1939 Material: height: 11 x width: 8 1/2 inches, [2 pages]
Creator: Dalí, Salvador, 1904-1989 Identifier: aql:1676 2004.2.8 QMOA

Description: Type written draft with pencil edits of lyrics for music that played at the entrance of the Dream of Venus Pavilion at the 1939 New York World's Fair. Sung by actress Ruth Ford with a chorus of female voices, the music represented the murmuring of Sirens beckoning visitors inside the pavilion.

Collection : aql:5839; vital:1

Creator : Dalí, Salvador, 1904-1989

Date : 1939

Summary/Description : Type written draft with pencil edits of lyrics for music that played at the entrance of the Dream of Venus Pavilion at the 1939 New York World's Fair. Sung by actress Ruth Ford with a chorus of female voices, the music represented the murmuring of Sirens beckoning visitors inside the pavilion.

Subject : Surrealism; Mythology; Dreams; Amusement Area

Rights : This object is part of the collection of the Queens Museum, and was cataloged with the generous support of the Council on Libraries and Information Resources (CLIR) as part of a Cataloging Hidden and Special Collections and Archives grant project, in collaboration with the Museum of the City of New York and Queens Library. These objects cannot be accessed at the Queens Library. Please contact info@queensmuseum.org in order to learn more about the object or to access it.

Coverage : Queens (New York, N.Y.) Flushing Meadows-Corona Park (New York, N.Y.)

Type : songs (document genre)

Format : height: 11 x width: 8 1/2 inches, [2 pages]

Identifier : aql:1676 2004.2.8 QMOA

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Subject:
Surrealism; Mythology; Dreams; Amusement Area
Rights Notice
This object is part of the collection of the Queens Museum, and was cataloged with the generous support of the Council on Libraries and Information Resources (CLIR) as part of a Cataloging Hidden and Special Collections and Archives grant project, in collaboration with the Museum of the City of New York and Queens Library. These objects cannot be accessed at the Queens Library. Please contact info@queensmuseum.org in order to learn more about the object or to access it.


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