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Hookah Love

Poster
1967 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Psychadelic poster in green, dark red, orange, and purple, with a white outer border, black background with purple green and orange line bordered frame with dark red swirl decoration in a top panel continuing in a repeating cusped border round the image. The main image set against a green background, features a topless woman with dark skin, green eyes and orange cheeks, and long orange hair adorned with a jewelled hair band. She wears an ankle lenth purple skirt with geometric decorations in green, orange and purple around the hem and is smoking a hookah piple. The text is in green and forms part of the image towards the top, surrounded by stylized floral decoration.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleHookah Love (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Colour offset lithograph on paper
Brief description
Poster, 'Hookah Love' by C. Keelan, 1967, printed by Personality Posters Inc., New York.
Physical description
Psychadelic poster in green, dark red, orange, and purple, with a white outer border, black background with purple green and orange line bordered frame with dark red swirl decoration in a top panel continuing in a repeating cusped border round the image. The main image set against a green background, features a topless woman with dark skin, green eyes and orange cheeks, and long orange hair adorned with a jewelled hair band. She wears an ankle lenth purple skirt with geometric decorations in green, orange and purple around the hem and is smoking a hookah piple. The text is in green and forms part of the image towards the top, surrounded by stylized floral decoration.
Dimensions
  • Height: 77.5cm
  • Width: 53.2cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • LET US THEN / FREE FROM HATE / LIVE HAPPiLY / AMONG MEN FiLLED / WITH HATRED / LET US DWELL iN / LOVE (In green on image)
  • 282 'Hookah Love' (Running vertically lower left margin)
  • PERSONALITY POSTERS, INC. 74 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK, N.Y. 10011 (Lower right margin)
  • [copyright symbol] 1967 C KEELAN (Artist signature printed below woman's feet)
Credit line
Gift of Ruth and Joseph Bromberg in memory of their son Michael
Subjects depicted
Other number
282 - Poster number
Collection
Accession number
E.595-1999

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