Art Deco autos

1929 Cord L-29 Cabriolet. Collection of Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum. — Copyright 2013 Peter Harholdt

A new exhibition of shapely, ornamental cars and motorcycles from the 1930s and '40s at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville were influenced the Art Deco movement of the 1920s.

1929 Cord L-29 Cabriolet from the collection of Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum.

1929 Cord L-29 Cabriolet. Collection of Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum.

The grille of the 1929 Cord L-29 Cabriolet. Collection of Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum.

1930 Bugatti Type 46 Semi-profile Coupe. Collection of Merle and Peter Mullin.

1930 Jordan Model Z Speedway Ace Roadster. Collection of Edmund J. Stecker Family Trust.

1930 Henderson KJ Streamline. Collection of Frank Westfall.

1933 Pierce-Arrow Silver Arrow Sedan. Collection of Academy of Art University Automobile Museum, San Francisco.

1934 Model 40 Special Speedster (TM). Owned and restored by Edsel & Eleanor Ford House, Grosse Pointe Shores, Michigan.

1934 Voisin Type C27 Aerosport Coupe. Collection of Merle and Peter Mullin. — Copyright 2013 Peter Harholdt

1935 Chrysler Imperial Model C-2 Airflow Coupe. Collection of John and Lynn Heimerl, Suffolk, Va.

1936 Cord 810 "Armchair" Beverly Sedan. Collection of Richard and Debbie Fass.

1936 Delahaye 135M Figoni & Falaschi Competition Coupe. Collection of Jim Patterson/The Patterson Collection.

1936 Stout Scarab. Collection of Larry Smith.

1937 Delahaye 135MS Roadster. Courtesy of The Revs Institute for Automotive Research @ the Collier Collection.

1938 Hispano-Suiza H6B Dubonnet "Xenia" Coupe. Collection of Peter Mullin Automotive Museum Foundation.

1938 Talbot-Lago T-150C-SS Teardrop Coupe. Collection of J. Willard Marriott, Jr.

1938 Tatra T97. Collection of Lane Motor Museum.

1939 Bugatti Type 57C by Vanvooren. Collection of Margie and Robert E. Petersen, Courtesy of the Petersen Automotive Museum, Los Angeles.

1939 Delage D8-120S Saoutchik Cabriolet. Collection of John W. Rich, Jr.

1940 Indian Chief. Collection of Gary Sanford.

1941 Chrysler Thunderbolt. Collection of Chrysler Group, LLC.