Przed Wschodem Slonca

Work on Paper

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DePaul Art Museum

Name/Title

Przed Wschodem Slonca

Entry/Object ID

2009.183

Description

Poster in gradient sepia tones to give the effect of a light shining down on a central male and female figure dressed to be married. The male figure is wearing a black suit and the female figure a white wedding dress, holding a bouquet of red roses. Script in bottom left corner. Theater.

Artwork Details

Medium

Offset lithograph

Acquisition

Notes

Collection of DePaul Art Museum, gift of Patricia Rosenberg

Made/Created

Artist

Jan Jaromir Aleksiun

Date made

1981

Ethnography

Cultural Region

Country

Poland

Continent

Europe

Notes

Europe Poland

Lexicon

Getty AAT

Concept

posters, information artifacts, information forms (objects)

Hierarchy Name

Information Forms (hierarchy name), Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name)

Facet

Objects Facet

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Theater posters

Legacy Lexicon

Object Name

Poster

Class

WORKS ON PAPER

Dimensions

Dimension Description

sheet

Width

26-1/8 in

Length

35-1/4 in