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[The Marx brothers] – Antique Wall Art

[The Marx brothers] — historic drawing
[The Marx brothers]. Historic drawing from the Movies & Film collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Few images capture their era like this historic drawing of [The Marx brothers]. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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[The Marx brothers]

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This drawing, done in India ink over pencil on illustration board, is a hand-made rendering of the Marx Brothers rather than a photograph, and the pencil lines still show beneath the inking. The record dates it only to a span from 1921 to 1933, when the brothers moved from vaudeville to Broadway revues and then to Hollywood, where their first feature film came out in 1929. Their anarchic stage routines, with Groucho's rapid-fire wisecracks and Harpo's silent clowning, drew many illustrators of the period. The drawing's bold black lines are worth noticing for how they capture that physical, chaotic energy on paper.

Medium1 drawing : India ink over pencil on illustration board ; 32.9 x 50.6 cm. (sheet)
Notes[between 1921 and 1933]
SubjectsMarx Brothers. Actors--1920-1940.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,477 × 897 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-165693

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