Made by
- Design
- Harry Mabs
- Art
- Roy Parker
Vision analysis
On the backglass
Written by a machine from the photos, so details may be off.
Backglass
- blue
- yellow
- red
- magenta
Fingerprint: madison square garden: giant sweep of ten brightly coloured numbered circles 10 down to 1 arcing across top like countdown, cluster of small heraldic shields each stamped with playing-card suit, solitary man in white shirt and dark trousers standing alone in empty pale-yellow arena dwarfed by surroundings
The most memorable element is the giant sweep of ten brightly coloured numbered circles, 10 down to 1, arcing across the top of the artwork like a countdown. Second is the cluster of small heraldic shields, each stamped with a playing-card suit, tucked beside the numbered circles. Third, a tiny solitary man in a white shirt and dark trousers stands alone in the middle of the empty pale-yellow arena, dwarfed by everything around him. Fourth, the whole composition is ringed by a thick navy-blue border and enclosed in a plain honey-coloured wooden frame.
Setting
- Pale cream arena floor
- Navy blue border
- Light blue tiered grandstand
- Wooden cabinet frame
Symbols
- Playing-card suits on shields
- Heraldic crests
- Numbered coloured circles
- Pink score lozenges
- Red ribbon banner
- Tiered grandstand
- Card table
Lettering
- Mixed: multicoloured outlined numerals with inline flourishes for the top 5-4-3-2-1, big white slanted block capitals with red drop shadow for million, red brush script with white outline for the centre title, and plain white outlined numerals on magenta banners for the score column
Themes
- Card and casino imagery
- Grandstand
- Score ladder
- Countdown numbers
Title on it
- Madison square garden
Text on it
- 5
- 4
- 3
- 2
- 1
- MILLION
- MADISON
- SQUARE GARDEN
- 900,000
- 800,000
- 700,000
- 600,000
- 500,000
- 400,000
- 300,000
- 200,000
- 100,000
- CENTER STAGE
- 10
- 9
- 8
- 7
- 6
- ROUNDS
- ALLIED
- D. Gottlieb
- SHOW
| Kind | Description |
|---|---|
| Woman | Bottom left, blonde with curled hair, strapless red sequined dress, shown from the waist up in profile, looking right |
| Man | Small and isolated near the centre of the open pale-yellow arena, white short-sleeved shirt, dark blue trousers, dark hair, standing upright and facing left |
| Man | Bottom centre-left, black hair, white shirt and black jacket, seated or leaning beside the card table |
| Creature | Pale-faced clown or harlequin figure with dark eye markings and a ruffled collar, at the card table |
| Man | Bottom centre-right, bald or grey-haired head, facing left towards the table group |
A landscape-format printed backglass panel with a pale cream-yellow playfield illustration inside a wide navy-blue border, mounted in a natural honey-orange wooden frame with visible grain. Across the top, the numerals 5 4 3 2 1 are drawn in five different colours (green 5, red 4, tan 3, blue 2, magenta 1) with black outlines and small pin-stripe flourishes, followed by the word MILLION in big white slanted block capitals with a red drop shadow. Down the left edge runs a stack of ten pink-and-magenta lozenge banners each carrying a score value in white digits with black outline: 900,000, 800,000, 700,000, 600,000, 500,000, 400,000, 300,000, 200,000, 100,000. An arc of large coloured circles numbered 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 sweeps from upper left down to lower right in orange, teal, red, gold, green and magenta, each circle paired with a small heraldic shield carrying a playing-card suit. In the centre sits the red script title MADISON with a white outline, and beneath it in smaller white capitals SQUARE GARDEN, over a light-blue tiered grandstand structure. Along the bottom edge, small painted figures gather: a blonde woman in a strapless red sequined dress at the far left, a dark-haired man in a white shirt and black trousers standing alone in the open field, and a group around a green card table with a clown-faced figure. A red ribbon reading ROUNDS curves in at the lower right.