Hookah Love
Poster
1967 (made)
1967 (made)
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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
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Object type | |
Title | Hookah 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. |
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Credit line | Gift of Ruth and Joseph Bromberg in memory of their son Michael |
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Other number | 282 - Poster number |
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Accession number | E.595-1999 |
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Record created | March 16, 2009 |
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