The heyday of the poster, when every barn wall, doghouse, and outhouse bore a circus poster, may be behind us, but the eye-popping colors and iconography remain. Seen here: Barnum & Bailey ...

A new exhibition at the RISD Museum evokes the garish thrills and creepy chills of the circus in images spanning more than a century, by Matisse, Toulouse-Lautrec, Tissot, and others.

Poland’s state-run circus began commissioning designers in 1962 in what Ylain Mayer, of New York’s Contemporary Posters, describes as a campaign to improve its image.

See Nicholas D. Lowry appraise a Neal Walters circus poster & woodblocks, ca. 1950, in Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Hour 3. Aired 01/20/2025 | Rating TV-G Genre ...

On view through Jan. 9, the exhibition features more than 60 objects, including swallowing swords and costumes, circus posters, historic photographs and fine artworks.

Circus art, devoted to representing the life and people of the circus, began with posters, broadsides, that drew in crowds. Newsletters Games Share a News Tip. Featured. Featured. Breaking News.

By the time Berger was done excavating and researching, he had unearthed a 9-foot-high by 55-foot-long, multi-sheet, full-color paper lithograph circus poster advertising the Great Anglo-American ...

Art: Montmartre Circus; Art: Montmartre Circus. 3 minute read. TIME. October 3, 1949 12:00 AM GMT-5. ... To publicize her, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec did his first poster.

Ron Berger uncovered a 9-foot tall, 55-foot long poster advertising a circus coming to town from August 17, 1885 at Corral Bar & Riverside Grill in Durand, Wis.