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Salon

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Description: A digital print on Classic Crest paper of a figure in Alison Saar's monument, the Salon, installed at the Charles Aznavour Garden in Paris, France, for the 2024 Summer Olympics. The print depicts the central figure of the sculptural installation, a Black woman seated and resting an olive branch on her lap with her left hand, while holding up an Olympic flame with her right hand. The image includes relief print markings and is printed in white, black, blue, and brown ink. The border below the image includes the edition number 225 of 350 on the lower left, the title "Salon" in the lower center, and is signed and dated by stamp "A. Saar 2024" in the lower right.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 2024.
Call number: priPEF 97
Creator: Saar, Alison(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of L.A. Louver, January 2025.

Exposition Internationale d'Électricité, Marseille : Avril-Octobre 1908, 1908

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An announcement poster for the International Electricity Exposition taking place in Marseille, France in 1908. The print features an allegorical image of a woman or "Electricity Fairy" flying over and illuminating the Marseille exposition. Sparks of electricity are shown as a halo centering her as she looks down onto the exposition site, with rays of light emanating from her hands onto the illuminated structures below. The figure is nude and painted in varying shades of green, with hair flowing against a dark blue and red sky. Text towards the lower right of the figure reads, "Exposition Internationale d'Electricite Marseille, Avril-Octobre 1908." Below the title, the print is signed by the artist, "D. Dellepiane" on the bottom right. The print is signed by the printer twice, with one in the left margin reading, "Imp. Moullot Fils Ainé, Marseille," and again in the top left with a decorative printer's mark of an image of a printing press wheel and text reading "Affiches Moullot Marseille - Paris."

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A collage by Eve Babitz that likely depicts Henry James and Edith Wharton and was gifted by the artist to her former partner and fellow writer Dan Wakefield. The female figure has been cut out of the photographic print and an image of clouds at sunset has been placed in the negative space. Babitz's signature and date are at the lower right corner. The collage is mounted on a board.

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With my amazing X-ray vision I can see the harm cigarettes do inside people's bodies

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A color lithograph poster created by the Health Education Council as part of their anti-smoking campaign, designed to discourage children from smoking tobacco cigarettes. The poster features an image of Superman in profile, flying over a cloudy sky with a gray halftone cityscape below. Rays of light from his eyes depict his X-ray vision pointed towards the sky and buildings to the right of the image. A speech balloon to the upper right of the figure reads, "With my amazing X-ray vision I can see the harm cigarettes do inside people's bodies. That's why I don't smoke!" The words "X-ray vision," "harm," and "smoke" are stylized in bold and italic font. The lower right of the poster includes a depiction of a figure smoking, with Superman's X-ray vision highlighting a detail of the figure's lungs. The image is colored and shaded using halftone and Ben Day dot effects. Text on the center left reads, "Superman is the trademark of DC Comics Inc. 1979. Used by the Health Education Council under licence." The lower left of the print includes the Health Education Council logo and text that reads, "The Health Education Council. Helping you to better health."

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American goldfinch

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An uncolored print from a copperplate engraving of a male and female American goldfinch perched on branches of thistle. The top left is labeled "No. 7.," and the top right is labeled "Plate XXXIII [33]." The title in the center reads "American goldfinch. Fringilla tristis, Linn. Male, 1. Female, 2. Common thistle. Cnicus lanceolatus." Signed John J. Audubon on the lower left, and R. Havell on the lower right.

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Entrée des alliés dans Pékin, le 22 Octobre 1860 : Entrance of the allyed in Pekin, the 22nd of October 1860

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A hand-colored lithograph view print depicting the capture of the Chinese Summer Palace near Peking, China. The image includes Chinese soldiers in varying military attire and queue braids while armed with swords, bows and arrows, dragon shields, and talismanic demon portraits. The French military is depicted in the center of the print dressed in blue uniforms with epaulettes, bayonets, and rifles on horseback while waving a flag with a French imperial eagle finial and flag. The right of the image depicts crowds of men in uniform fighting, and one of the men is illustrated in a red coat, likely referring to the British army. Background and foreground illustrate the Chinese soldiers as falling in defeat. The title is printed in French and English below the image. Signed by printer, "Lith: H Jannin, Paris" in the lower right corner. Signed by the publisher, "Paris chez Codoni, rue Grenier St. Lazare, 20," in the lower left corner. Signed by artist "Albert" in stone in the image's lower right corner.

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Ireland's war map

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A color lithograph recruitment poster promoting Irish involvement in World War I. The upper half of the print includes a map of Ireland reading, "100,000 men still eligible," with two superimposed insets highlighting battles in Belgium, France, Greece, and Turkey that Irish regiments fought in. The lower half of the poster reads "Ireland at the front looks to Ireland at home to answer the call." The lower left corner includes the publisher's signature reading, "Issued by the Department of Recruiting for Ireland, 32 Nassau St., Dublin." Lithographer Alex, Thom & Co.'s signature on the lower right corner.

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