Bird of paradise by Richard Walton Tully – Vintage Poster
(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 Bird of paradise by Richard Walton Tully brings a moment of history to your wall. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Bird of paradise by Richard Walton Tully
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Few stage works of the 1910s tied a Pacific island setting so closely to romance as Richard Walton Tully's *Bird of Paradise*, and this silkscreen poster from the California Federal Art Project advertises a production of it. Tully's play, which opened on Broadway in 1912, follows a Hawaiian woman caught between her people's traditions and a foreign suitor, and the story later reached film audiences, including King Vidor's 1932 version. Its flat color fields and simplified shapes reflect the silkscreen method that WPA poster units favored, since it let artists produce inexpensive posters in quantity.
| Created / published | 1936 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). · Tully Richard Walton 1877-1945. Federal Theatre Project (U.S.) sponsor. |
| Subjects | Theatrical productions--California--1930-1950. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 1,207 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 857_Bird_of_paradise_by_Ric_1936 |
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