Art correspondent Ponsonby Willis parachutes in another unusual special , the 1980 catalogue for the exhibition at the National Trust's S.H. Ervin Museum and Art Gallery , the cover illustration , entitled Moths around the Quay , a 1932 linocut by Ailsa Lee Brown depicting Tiger Moth aircraft flying over the Sydney Harbour Bridge and Circular Quay .
It highlighted the impact of the construction of the Sydney Harbour Bridge and use of art deco design in architecture , cinemas , the Anzac War Memorial, Luna Park with its floating art deco ballroom , incinerators , the Trocadero Dance Hall , photography , paintings , woodcuts , linocuts , pencil drawings .
Outlined was the art deco vision for Sydney in the 1930s , the buildings emulating the skyscrapers of New York , such as the Empire State and the Chrysler Building.