In March 2000, Shapiro waded into disorganized boxes, files, and random objects from the home office of Greek American illustrator and industrial designer Vassos (1898-1985) and began the task
of recreating his career, which spanned from Prohibition to the computer age. She covers drawing modernity: advertising and book illustrations; becoming an industrial designer; modernizing the
home through radio; designed for electricity: Vasso’s architectural interiors; Vassos and RCA: money, media, and modernism; the TRK-12: RCA’s first mass-marketed television receiver, and John
Vassos in postwar America. Annotation ©2016 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
