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Costume ball--Carnival of the artists & writers dinner club--Webster Hall ... / John Sloan. – Historic Reproduction

Costume ball--Carnival of the artists & writers dinner club--Webster Hall ... / John Sloan., [between 1890 and 1920] — vintage poster
Costume ball--Carnival of the artists & writers dinner club--Webster Hall ... / John Sloan., [between 1890 and 1920]. Vintage poster from the Circus & Carnival 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 things capture turn-of-the-century New York nightlife like a costume ball, and this poster announces one held under the name of the Carnival of the Artists & Writers Dinner Club at Webster Hall. Its designer, John Sloan, was a painter and illustrator who later became a central figure of the Ashcan school, and he made many commercial images for the city's bohemian and literary circles. Artists' balls like this one blended the playful theatrics of carnival with the social life of Manhattan's painters, writers and illustrators. The poster offers a glimpse of how those communities promoted their gatherings in color.

Created / published[between 1890 and 1920]
Medium1 print (poster) : color.
GenreAdvertisements 1890-1900.Posters American 1890-1900.Prints Color 1890-1900.
SubjectsBalls (Parties)--New York (State)--New York--1890-1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,086 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-176845

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