American Circus Posters (Dover Fine Art, History of Art)

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The Children’s Dream of Fairy-Land (1893) . . . Living Statues on Horseback (1890s) . . . Real Roman Hippodrome, Five Continent Menagerie (1890s) . . . Uno, Queen Supreme of the Serpent Kingdom (1894) . . . Dancing Girls, Mounted Guards and In reality Lavish Displays (1903) . . . “Twisting Double Somersault,” A Feat Never Before Attempted by the Most Intrepid Aerialists (1904) . . . Desperado’s Terrible Leap for Life, A Terrific Descent of 80 Feet Through Space Landing Upon His Chest on a Skid (1909) . . . The Imperial Chinese Circus Stars (1914) . . . An Army of Clowns (1920s) . . . Pallenberg’s Wonder Bears (1920s) . . . Gargantua the Great (1938).
Originally put in store windows and posted on sheds, barns, buildings, walls and fences, these 18 extremely rare posters, most not prior to now reproduced, are collected together for the first time. The quality of reproduction is excellent: reproduced in full color immediately from the originals, these posters have been printed in an extra large format and on coated stock in order that each and every detail is clear. They’re an exciting visual history, capturing the pageantry and color that the circus used to be and is. They’re also extremely fine examples of almost 50 years of poster art and American advertising.
There are acrobats, elephants, tigers, lions, parades, tents, trains, and plenty of specialized acts: May Wirth, the Riding Rooneys, the Astounding Clarkonians, and so forth. The posters date from the 1890s to the 1940s, and include one by Norman Bel Geddes. They feature many American circuses: Ringling Bros., Barnum & Bailey, Sells, Sparks, Hagenbeck-Wallace. The historical introduction and captions are by Charles Philip Fox, Director of Research and Development with the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.
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