Costume ball--Carnival of the artists & writers dinner club--Webster Hall ... / John Sloan. – Vintage Wall Art
![Costume ball--Carnival of the artists & writers dinner club--Webster Hall ... / John Sloan., [between 1890 and 1920] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/79/7978a31fad51-L.webp)
(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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This vintage poster of Costume ball--Carnival of the artists & writers dinner club--Webster Hall ... / John Sloan. brings a moment of history to your wall. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Costume ball--Carnival of the artists & writers dinner club--Webster Hall ... / John Sloan.
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This poster advertises a costume ball given by the Carnival of the Artists & Writers Dinner Club at Webster Hall, a large social venue on East 11th Street in Manhattan's East Village. John Sloan, who began as a commercial illustrator before he became known as a painter of city life, made the design. Artists' and writers' balls of this kind were popular in New York in the 1890s, when masked and costumed revelry offered young bohemians a playful break from conventional society. The poster is worth a close look for its color and its lively, theatrical sense of festivity.
| Created / published | [between 1890 and 1920] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : color. |
| Genre | Advertisements 1890-1900.Posters American 1890-1900.Prints Color 1890-1900. |
| Subjects | Balls (Parties)--New York (State)--New York--1890-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,017 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-172705 |
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