DAVIS CONE (B. 1950)

"The marquee, one of Cone's personal favorites, features a riot of varicolored neon trim. Its central feature is a clock, in homage to the theatre's name. (Or is it the other way around?) ...Cone managed to portray perfectly the stainless-steel doors, shadowed by the marquee overhead, and the richness of the two-toned glazed terracotta fluted brickwork above the marquee, with a giant V-form finial running up to the roofline, again, advertising the theatre's name. ...The work is a tour-de-force in its exposition of the myriad defining elements of the Art Deco style in the hot glare of a summer sun."
—M. D. Kinerk and D. W. Wilhelm, Popcorn Palaces: The Art Deco Movie Theatre Paintings of Davis Cone, New York, 2001, p. 102