Barney Bernard
Print
1922 (published)
1922 (published)
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| Place of origin |
Al Frueh (1880-1968) was an American cartoonist and caricaturist for The New Yorker magazine from 1925 to 1962. This print forms part of a portfolio of caricatures, Stage Folk: A Book of Caricatures by Frueh, published by Lieber & Lewis in 1922.
The print is a caricature of the American stage and screen actor Barney Bernard (1877-1924). Bernard was famous for playing Abe Potash in Potash and Perlmutter, a long-running Broadway comedy based on the short stories of Montague Glass which chronicle the adventures of two Jewish partners in the New York garment trade. The play was first staged in 1913 and was the basis for a film in 1923, in which Bernard recreated the role of Potash.
The print is a caricature of the American stage and screen actor Barney Bernard (1877-1924). Bernard was famous for playing Abe Potash in Potash and Perlmutter, a long-running Broadway comedy based on the short stories of Montague Glass which chronicle the adventures of two Jewish partners in the New York garment trade. The play was first staged in 1913 and was the basis for a film in 1923, in which Bernard recreated the role of Potash.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | Barney Bernard (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Linocut, printed ink on paper |
| Brief description | Colour linocut by Al Frueh of Barney Bernard, published 1922 |
| Physical description | Linocut caricature of Barney Bernard, three-quarter length. Bernard's jacket is printed in black, his hair and moustache in grey and his face and hands in flesh tones. His trousers and waistcoat are un-printed, taking their colour from the white paper beneath. Frueh's signature is printed in black, upper right. |
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| Credit line | Given by Alfred J Frueh |
| Subject depicted | |
| Summary | Al Frueh (1880-1968) was an American cartoonist and caricaturist for The New Yorker magazine from 1925 to 1962. This print forms part of a portfolio of caricatures, Stage Folk: A Book of Caricatures by Frueh, published by Lieber & Lewis in 1922. The print is a caricature of the American stage and screen actor Barney Bernard (1877-1924). Bernard was famous for playing Abe Potash in Potash and Perlmutter, a long-running Broadway comedy based on the short stories of Montague Glass which chronicle the adventures of two Jewish partners in the New York garment trade. The play was first staged in 1913 and was the basis for a film in 1923, in which Bernard recreated the role of Potash. |
| Bibliographic reference | Theatre Caricatures by Al Frueh: West End Meets Broadway, introduction by Mike and Nancy Frueh. London: Theatre Museum, 1990. 16p. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | S.467-1990 |
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| Record created | August 15, 2016 |
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