{"id":314,"date":"2010-06-28T15:52:40","date_gmt":"2010-06-28T20:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/hfacollections\/?p=314"},"modified":"2011-06-24T12:25:03","modified_gmt":"2011-06-24T17:25:03","slug":"hand-painted-posters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hfacollections\/2010\/06\/28\/hand-painted-posters\/","title":{"rendered":"Hand painted posters"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every now and again I come across a hand painted poster in the poster collection.\u00a0 These are almost always painted on the verso of a mass-produced poster.<\/p>\n

Some hand painted posters are very detailed; often they are copies of the theatrical poster.<\/p>\n

The hand-painted posters in the HFA’s collection are very simple advertisements, some with illustrations, most without.\u00a0 The example below is typical, showing recto and verso.<\/p>\n

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The Iron Glove (William Castle, 1954), Leith Poster Collection. Canadian hand-painted on verso of Bitter Victory poster.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Bitter Victory (Nicholas Ray, 1957). Leith Poster Collection<\/p><\/div>\n

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The Big Sky (Howard Hawks, 1952) (Leith Poster Collection)<\/p><\/div>\n

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Quentin Durward (Richard Thorpe, 1955) (Leith Poster Collection)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Every now and again I come across a hand painted poster in the poster collection.\u00a0 These are almost always painted on the verso of a mass-produced poster. Some hand painted posters are very detailed; often they are copies of the theatrical poster. The hand-painted posters in the HFA’s collection are very simple advertisements, some with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2038,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hfacollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hfacollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hfacollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hfacollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2038"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hfacollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hfacollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":326,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hfacollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions\/326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hfacollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hfacollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hfacollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}