Sculpture of Mercury on facade of Ford Exposition building at New York World's Fair

View of sculpture of Mercury by Robert Foster on the facade of the Ford Exposition building at the New York World's Fair. Pedestrians in foreground. Typed on back: "Mercury guards Ford Exposition at Fair. Made of shining stainless steel sheets, this god of the machine age dominates the front entrance to the Ford Exposition, the most beautiful building at the New York World's Fair, and looks down calmly on the more than 25,000 persons an hour who enter at peak times. Mercuy, the work of the famous sculpture, Robert Foster, and the world's largest sculpture of the winged messenger, is attracting wide attention among art critics. Foster calls this new type of work 'structural sculpture.' Mercury is 25 feet high, weighs three tons, and has no supporting pillar, but provides his own support because his weight is carried back from the shoulders to the draperies and thence to the building. In one hand Mercury holds a V-8 emblem, symbolizing the Ford, and in the other a V-12 emblem, symbolizing the Lincoln-Zephyr."