Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Poster for Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey advertising a special holiday show designed by Norman Bel Geddes. At center, a clown's face with a gray hat and a ruffled collar that is half yellow, half red, white, and blue (resembling an American flag). At top, in yellow and orange text: RINGLING BROS AND BARNUM & BAILEY / PRESENT [in gray]. On either side of the clown's face in white text: A RADIANT NEW SPECTACLE OF COLOR BEAUTY FUN AND LAUGHTER; below in multi-colored letters: " H O L I D A Y S ". Below, in gray, yellow, and green text: FESTIVE GAYETY FROM NEW YEAR TO CHRISTMAS / IN GLORIOUS PROCESSIONAL PAGEANTRY / PRODUCED BY JOHN RINGLING NORTH / DESIGNED BY NORMAN BEL GEDDES / STAGED BY JOHN MURRAY ANDERSON. At bottom, in between a red band and a blue band, in white text: BUY DEFENSE BONDS [star].
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Designer
- E. McKnight Kauffer, American, 1890–1954
- Client
- Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey, USA
- Date
- 1942
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer
- Medium
- Lithograph on white wove paper
- Dimensions
- 49.3 × 71 cm (19 7/16 × 27 15/16 in.)
- Type
- graphic design
- Object Name
- Poster
- Type
- Poster
