Ken Rattenbury’s vibrant collection of circus memorabilia drew national attention as collectors battled for rare posters and ...

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 ...

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.

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.

In 1911 the Barnum Bailey Circus commissioned from Strobridge's salesman A. A. Stewart 34 sizes and designs, including 2,000 copies of a 32-sheet parade poster and 5,000 one sheets to pass out ...

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.

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

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 ...

Orton's circus performers likely put the giant poster on the side of the building for all to see; visible from the street, the train station and even from the river. "This would be like the Super ...