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Flower Love

Poster
1967 (made)
Artist/Maker
Personality Posters Inc. (printer)
Keelan, C (artist)
Place of origin
New York (printed)

Psychadelic poster in green, deep pink, orange, and yellow, with a white outer border, black background split into symmetrical shaped segments with pink, green, yellow line borders. Two triangular panels bottom corners contain stylized floral decoration, and one shaped panel at the top features the title and text. The main image is circular and features a female face with green eyes and black outlines, pink cheeks, wild flowing red hair with pink flowers against a bright pale green background.

Object details

Categories
Prints
Posters
Object type
Poster
TitleFlower Love (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Colour offset lithograph on paper
Ink
Paper
Colour Offset Lithography
Brief description
Poster, 'Flower Love' by C. Keelan, 1967, printed by Personality Posters Inc., New York.
Physical description
Psychadelic poster in green, deep pink, orange, and yellow, with a white outer border, black background split into symmetrical shaped segments with pink, green, yellow line borders. Two triangular panels bottom corners contain stylized floral decoration, and one shaped panel at the top features the title and text. The main image is circular and features a female face with green eyes and black outlines, pink cheeks, wild flowing red hair with pink flowers against a bright pale green background.
Dimensions
  • Height: 77.5cm
  • Width: 54.1cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • FLOWER LOVE / COSMIC FLOWING BLOSSOMS GROWING / FLOWER CHILDREN SOWING LOVE / INTERTWINING SOULS UNITING / ECHO WAVES OF HARMONY (Panel at top, the title in pink and the rest in black)
  • 280 'Flower 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 lower left of image)
Credit line
Gift of Ruth and Joseph Bromberg in memory of their son Michael
Subjects depicted
Face (Body Part)
Stylized Flowers
Lettering (Layout Features)
Other number
280 - Poster number
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.596-1999

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Record createdMarch 16, 2009
Record URL
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