Illuminate!
Designer
Kemeny
Datec. 1920
Dimensions42 x 28 in. (106.7 x 71.1 cm)
ClassificationsPoster
Credit LinePoster House Permanent Collection
Object numberPH.9100
DescriptionThis poster is by the little-known American artist John Kemeny, who also produced book illustrations. It advertises electric garden lights to a well-to-do clientele of the kind represented in the image: elegantly dressed and at an evening party in the garden of a grand mansion. (Only about thirty percent of American homes had electric light at this point.) The World War I officer’s uniform of the man in the foreground suggests that it was issued during or shortly after America’s entry into the war in 1917.On View
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