Editing Radio City Music Hall (section)

===Art===
[[File:Lobby statue RCMH.jpg|left|thumb|"Goose Girl", by sculptor [[Robert Laurent]]]]

The public areas of Radio City feature the work of many Depression-era artists, who were commissioned by Deskey as part of his general design scheme.<ref name="The New York Times 1932">{{cite news|title=Native Art to Lead in New Music Hall; Rockefeller Centre Unit Will Offer Striking Display of Modern Decorations|work=The New York Times|issn=0362-4331|date=October 3, 1932 |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1932/10/03/100857112.pdf|access-date=December 13, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220403220551/https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1932/10/03/100857112.html?pdf_redirect=true&site=false|archive-date=April 3, 2022|url-status=live}}</ref> The large {{convert|2400|ft2|m2|adj=on}} mural in the grand foyer, "Quest for the Fountain of Eternal Youth", was painted by Ezra Winter and depicts a fable from a Native American tribe in Oregon.{{sfn|Landmarks Preservation Commission|1978|p=9}}{{sfn|Okrent|2003|p=218}}<ref name="The New York Times 1932" />{{sfn|Balfour|1978|p=141}}{{sfn|Roussel|2006|p=20}} The murals on the wall of the grand lounge, which depict five eras of differing theater scenes, are collectively known as the "Phantasmagoria of the Theater" by [[Louis Bouche]].<ref name="Storey 1932" />{{sfn|Landmarks Preservation Commission|1978|p=13}}<ref name="The New York Times 1932" /><ref name="Poulin 2012">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hBR_J9jliugC |title=Graphic Design And Architecture, A 20th Century History|first=Richard |last=Poulin|publisher=Rockport |date=November 1, 2012|isbn=978-1-59253-779-2|page=97|access-date=December 8, 2015|archive-date=April 29, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160429125045/https://books.google.com/books?id=hBR_J9jliugC|url-status=live}}</ref>{{sfn|Roussel|2006|p=44}} Three female nudes cast in aluminum were commissioned for the theater, but Roxy thought that they were inappropriate for a family venue.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.newyork.com/articles/attractions/the-art-of-rockefeller-center-top-10-things-not-to-miss-70329/ |title=The Art of Rockefeller Center: Top 10 Things Not to Miss|first=Mike|last=Dunphy|date=November 17, 2014 |access-date=November 15, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151117032410/http://www.newyork.com/articles/attractions/the-art-of-rockefeller-center-top-10-things-not-to-miss-70329/|archive-date=November 17, 2015}}</ref> Although the Rockefellers loved the sculptures, the only one that was displayed on opening night was "Goose Girl" by [[Robert Laurent]], which is located on the first mezzanine and depicts a nude aluminum girl beside a slender aluminum goose.{{sfn|Roussel|2006|p=26}} Since opening night the other two sculptures have been put on display at Radio City. "Eve" by [[Gwen Lux]] is displayed in the southwest corner of the grand foyer,<ref name="Poulin 2012" />{{sfn|Roussel|2006|p=30}} and "Spirit of the Dance" by William Zorach is visible from the grand lounge.{{sfn|Landmarks Preservation Commission|1978|p=14}}<ref name="The New York Times 1932" /><ref name="Poulin 2012" />{{sfn|Roussel|2006|p=40}}

Each of the public restrooms have adjoining lounges that display various works of art.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://thirstyinsuburbia.com/2009/06/go-in-style-2009-finalists-for-best-public-restroom/|title=Go in Style: 2009 Finalists for Best Public Restroom|first=Gayle|last=Leonard |publisher=Thirsty in Suburbia|date=June 13, 2009|access-date=November 15, 2015 |archive-date=November 17, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151117024150/http://thirstyinsuburbia.com/2009/06/go-in-style-2009-finalists-for-best-public-restroom/|url-status=live}}</ref> The third-floor women's restroom contains the ''Panther Mural'' by [[Henry Billings]], which is accompanied by Deskey's abstract wall coverings in the women's lounge.<ref name="Storey 1932" />{{sfn|Roussel|2006|pp=28–29}} The women's lounge on the second mezzanine houses [[Yasuo Kuniyoshi]]'s oil painting of "larger-than-life botanical designs" along the entire wall,<ref name="Storey 1932" />{{sfn|Roussel|2006|p=33}} which had originally been commissioned by [[Georgia O'Keeffe]] before she suffered a nervous breakdown and left the mural incomplete.{{sfn|Roussel|2006|p=33}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.openculture.com/2013/09/frida-kahlo-writes-a-personal-letter-to-georgia-okeeffe.html|title=Frida Kahlo Writes a Personal Letter to Georgia O'Keeffe After O'Keeffe's Nervous Breakdown|first=Colin|last=Marshall|publisher=Open Culture|date=September 23, 2013|access-date=November 15, 2015|archive-date=November 17, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151117023359/http://www.openculture.com/2013/09/frida-kahlo-writes-a-personal-letter-to-georgia-okeeffe.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Deskey created a wall covering for the men's lounge on the second mezzanine, containing masculine icons and nicotine motifs.{{sfn|Roussel|2006|p=34}} He also designed the first-mezzanine women's lounge, a room full of mirrors with a blue-and-white carpet and frosted low-intensity lights.{{sfn|Roussel|2006|p=35}} Witold Gordon painted a map with caricatures and stereotypical motifs in the men's lounge on the same floor,<ref name="Storey 1932" />{{sfn|Roussel|2006|p=36}} as well as a "History of Cosmetics Mural" in the women's lounge in the basement.<ref name="Storey 1932" />{{sfn|Landmarks Preservation Commission|1978|p=15}}{{sfn|Roussel|2006|p=43}} [[Stuart Davis (painter)|Stuart Davis]] created ''[[Men Without Women (mural)|Men Without Women]]'', a mural of masculine stereotypical pastimes in the basement-level men's lounge;<ref name="Storey 1932" />{{sfn|Landmarks Preservation Commission|1978|p=14}}{{sfn|Roussel|2006|p=47}}{{efn|The mural was originally unnamed, but  the Rockefeller Center Art Committee named it ''Men Without Women'', after the [[Ernest Hemingway]] short-story collection that had been published the same year of the mural's commission.<ref>{{cite web|title=Stuart Davis at the Whitney – The Painter Behind a Prized Radio City Mural |url=https://www.rockefellercenter.com/blog/2016/08/30/stuart-davis-whitney/|date=August 30, 2016|website=Rockefeller Center |access-date=March 1, 2020|archive-date=March 1, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200301135408/https://www.rockefellercenter.com/blog/2016/08/30/stuart-davis-whitney/}}</ref>}} the work was donated to the [[Museum of Modern Art]] in 1975{{sfn|Okrent|2003|p=430}}<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1975/04/03/archives/music-hall-mural-going-to-museum.html|title=Music Hall Mural Going to Museum |last=Kramer|first=Hilton|date=April 3, 1975 |work=The New York Times|issn=0362-4331|access-date=December 15, 2018|archive-date=December 16, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181216040053/https://www.nytimes.com/1975/04/03/archives/music-hall-mural-going-to-museum.html|url-status=live}}</ref> and loaned back to Radio City in 1999.{{sfn|Roussel|2006|p=47}} Finally, [[Edward Buk Ulreich]] created a "Wild West Mural" on the third-mezzanine men's lounge.<ref name="Storey 1932" /><ref name="The New York Times 1932" />{{sfn|Roussel|2006|p=39}}