Art Deco Building Mixed Media by Janette Boyd

Art Deco Building

by Janette Boyd

Canvas Print

$65

Framed Print

$83

Art Print

$22

Poster

$22

Metal Print

$71

Acrylic Print

$79

Wood Print

$51

Throw Pillow

$26

Duvet Cover

$95

Shower Curtain

$73

Bath Towel

$35

Tote Bag

$26

Weekender Tote Bag

$44

Zip Pouch

$22

Portable Battery Charger

$49

Yoga Mat

$60

Greeting Card

$4.95

Spiral Notebook

$15

iPhone Case

$27

Beach Towel

$35

Round Beach Towel

$80

Weekender Tote Bag

$44

Men's Clothing

$25

Women's Clothing

$25

Youth Clothing

$21

Toddler Clothing

$19

Baby Clothing

$23

Title

Art Deco Building

Artist

Janette Boyd

Medium

Mixed Media - Photo/texture/digital

Description

Photo of the east corner of the vintage Warehouse Market Art Deco Building located at 11th Street and Elgin in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Additional texture created by FAA Artist, Jai Johnson, called "gardenofiris1" was added to sky using Corel Paintshop's techniques of brushes and blending.

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Art Deco Warehouse Market
One of Tulsa's most historic sites has known joy and sorrow, from baseball to the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot. Later, farmers sold their wares, dancers swung to the tunes of Duke Ellington and frugal shoppers found bargains.

One of Tulsa’s most notable landmarks – the Warehouse Market building at 11th Street and Elgin Avenue on Historic Route 66 – owes its existence to that tradition and to an unlikely coalition of city leaders, preservationists, architects and a big box store.

Oklahoma City developer John J. Harden built the art deco-style market in 1929 on the former site of McNulty Park, which has its own historic significance. The park was home to the Tulsa Oilers baseball team for a decade and a venue for visiting stars like Babe Ruth and the New York Yankees. It was also where survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot were detained after their homes were burned to the ground.

Designed by architect B. Gaylord Noftsger, it was first called the Tulsa Public Market and then the Farmers Market. It was a long, flat-roofed, one-story building with evenly spaced pinnacles and a dramatic tower at the entrance. On the east end were stalls where some 150 farmers displayed their wares.

Vivid polychrome terra cotta ornaments, neo-classical medallions and geometric designs decorate the building. The art deco elements extend up to the banded parapet and tower, with fans, rosettes, arcs, diamonds and vine motifs, according to the book “Tulsa Art Deco,” published by the Tulsa Foundation for Architecture in 2001.

A medallion featuring a goddess holding a sheaf of wheat and a cornucopia adorns one side of the entrance and a god in a winged helmet holding an oil derrick and a train engine is on the other side.

In the early 1930s, the 50,000-square-foot market offered farm-fresh produce to shoppers. Two grocery stores, a meat market, bakery, drug store, cafe, soda fountain and other shops filled out the space.
http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/news/throwbacktulsa/throwback-tulsa-how-a-big-box-store-helped-save-a/article_4e04fb8f-d0cf-57b3-a741-96bba29cb31a.html