Barnum & Bailey Circus Canvas Poster

335G: Barnum & Bailey Circus Canvas Poster-44" wide, 76" long, printed on canvass is a reproduction of original, photo does not do poster justice. Important Note: Please be advised that the viewable image size is approximate and may vary slightly. It is intended for reference purposes. Please DO NOT use this number for the purpose of pre-sizing a frame. You should ALWAYS have the final product in hand prior to sizing a frame. Types Of Media: Our art pieces are offered on various media ranging in quality and price. Each media has it's own qualities which you may find more or less suitable to a particular application. All items are intended for indoor use. A wonderful thing about vintage art: "Probably the greatest image ever produced as a simple circus poster design was that of a leaping tiger, designed by the noted illustrator Charles Livingston Bull in 1914. This one particular image may well be the most recognizable vintage art image in history Lithographer printed early images by using a series of carefully registered tint stones -- became the most popular method for the original print-making of everything from miniatures to large posters during the last half of the nineteenth century. The far less costly advances of photomechanical methods, however, made this original and complex form of art all but obsolete by the early twentieth century. Competing companies were quick to recognize the vast potential of this color process. Beginning around 1870, advertisers regularly allied their products to appealing visual images. And, like today, these images often had very little connection with the product being sold! By the mid 1880's advertisers and their printers were creating the most expensive and elaborate works of art in color. As antique art, advertisements such as this example reflect the true tastes and desires of the times. This is a delightful and original example of nineteenth century advertising. This summary is intended to acquaint the reader with the basic processes of printmaking as used both in the past and present. The concluding information will deal with some of the more frequent problems nagging the modern art collector. My art sells to companies in the thousands of dollars. I came up with a idea to make this now affordable to public! Some of the greatest and most valuable images in the history of world art stem from printmaking. Yes such widespread confusion presently exists as to what exactly constitutes an original work of graphic art that people are all too often convinced into purchasing copies and reproductions at ridiculous prices. Briefly, a print is a multiple image which has been transferred to a surface from a matrix, such as a plate, wood block, stone, glass or screen. The most common belief is that a print is a reproduction of a painting for sale at the museum shops. It is important to observe that an artistic print is an original work of art when the artist deliberately selects one or more of the processes outlined below to create his image. The artistic act of creativity is bonded to the medium. Original prints are often referred to by the printing technique that was used to produce them: Etching, woodcut, lithograph, silk-screen, and many other wonderful mediums of graphic art. In the 1800s, printers offered theatre, circus ,label goods art designs, stock poster designs featuring art designs to which they added the title, business type and date. Available through catalogs, these cost much less than specially designed artist editions. It was not uncommon for more than one company to use the same poster or art designs in the same season, the only difference being the title on the posters art piece. Printed stock posters art pieces and labels might remain in storage for years until they were sold to a company to be used. It is not uncommon to find posters used during a specific year which had actually been printed decades before. Different Posters where used for Different Purposes. Circuses and theatres used a variety of posters to advertise their shows. Printers created half-sheet and full-sheet panels featuring horizontal or vertical illustrations especially to fill narrow spaces in store windows, to allow advertising without covering too much of the window display. One-sheet panels measured 21"x 54". Half-sheet panels, printed with either vertical or horizontal designs, measured 14"x 42." Guttersnipe referred to circus paper several feet wide by only a few inches high that was intended to go on rain gutters over store fronts; and "banners," for outdoor displays, were usually mounted on thin stiff cloth. About Poster Reproductions: Any printed design can at some time be reproduced. "In any collectible market that warrants high prices for original items. You’ll always run into people reprinting Things from originals. Even money! "In some cases it hurts the market, When reprints look quick and cheap from turning on a printer and printing a piece of paper with ink!. Its just hard to have and maintain big 6 foot printer in a home. AND the cost of inks! That is another whole chapter to be written! So, most people will pay more to print houses for a larger print because large wall spaces look out of place with small prints from a home computer framed and hung. These reproductions of old prints look cheep especially when the printers don't care about the history of the piece or the type paper itself and use the available paper bought for the purpose of printing fast and for profit. Little is cared what is taken from original arts or artist and reprinted. There’s a high demand for the original Art. Serious collectors must have the original or they don't collect the item at all. Then we heard about great prices paid at auction houses for these original works of art. We may laugh about some high art price paid, what they represent and we all wish secretly in out hearts, we could own these originals. These original works offer so much more from the artist to the current owners. Its time spent by the artist and the application from the buyer of that caring of those values. Art is a sense of education and leisure. Print can rob every one of values when printing to make lots of copies on paper. How many of us fall in love with a piece, only not to like the paper types. Oh, I forgot, printers tell us this is thick paper. This is a better print and will pay more for that type paper. I am not against printing and the printer. I am saddening, we are so happy to hang low quality printed art for our children to dispose of later in life. And there is very little resell value. Simply ask your children what they think of that art piece in ten years from now. I work with business companies and I try to have my art service paid within 6 weeks by business brought to that company. This was some of the thoughts I had while patenting my system of art. Why is it a homeowner can buy art and have no resale value to another homeowner who in turn owns the same type a industry art. Why can't we leave a present art history to future children? What will they think of this time era? Our art techniques themselves are out dated for all we now know about the art itself. Printers enlisted the services of the finest artists to design posters. However, few ever signed their work. And went unnoticed. While some specialized in particular subjects, most worked in teams to create the posters in a more or less assembly line process. Therefore, the companies that printed them knew posters and not by the artists who created them. As I researched copyrights of old poster art I was surprised how it really was assembly line and credits given to the printer. That also was a time era printing process was truly art form. Through the broad scope of Posters American Style, we explore the process of making the messages of commerce, propaganda, and patriotism evident through a visual medium. While it is not possible to trace all the many changes in poster styles in these one hundred years, it is evident that to attract attention, poster artists increasingly had to find new approaches and an element of the unexpected. Ever-changing variations of design and technique have functioned universally to focus the individual and collective consciousness, demanding both attention and action. The invention of the lithographic printing process in the 1798 by Aloys Senefelder, a German map inspector, drastically changed poster production. Using this process,, which depends on the mutual repulsion of water and grease, printers applied a design using a greasy crayon or liquid onto a 28 x 42-inch block of limestone. Then onto the wet stone they would roll oil-based ink, which would adhere to the greasy drawing or painting, and run it through a press to transfer the image onto dampened paper. Though sparingly used for almost 50 years after it appeared, it had become an indispensable tool for printers by the 1880s. Printers based a poster’s dimensions on the size of the printing bed. After the introduction of lithography, the size of a litho stone, called a sheet, became the standard. So printers identified posters in units of sheets or half-sheets. Horizontal posters became known as flats and verticals, uprights. Larger posters came in multiple sheet sizes from 2 to 24. The combination of sheets determined the type of poster produced. Identifying and Dating old Posters. old posters can be identified by their creases since all needed to be folded for storage and shipment, and each printer folded his posters in a slightly different way. But they can also be dated by looking for date sheets–smaller papers pasted onto posters by advance billing crews. There are many poster reproductions, "Most posters sold on eBay are these poster types. Outright fakes are perhaps less of a problem than with other collecting areas. But collectors have to learn the reproductions if they’re interested in the more exotic older images. We go to prison for printing money. We all can scan and print. But can there be technique of printing art, painting art and the artist to create a piece itself, and judge by its own piece of art form and technique and maintain a modest valve for resale to another person. There are broad range o posters and some type bit tougher to sell than other vintage art ephemeron styles of art. Not everything sells. "Prices can vary be pretty affordable as a result. Prices of pre-World War late 19th century posters and I and art are a different story, they’re scarce with a limited few collectors ready to pay for the best ones. But these can be a tough sale of waiting a real collector. Which leaves the homeowner wondering how to get the resale value out of the pretty print bought for their wall. In all areas there’s a certain amount of market for posters as decoration, without respect to collecting. But why can't a homeowner buy something in art form and be able to sell it for value easily to another homeowner? Still goes back to the problem of mass printing quality. Who would like to buy a art piece and not feel pain of loosing money over it and easily sell to another who admires it. We can do this with electronics! Why can't we do this with art on a mass scale and the artist be able to create beyond worrying about techniques and more about the artist styles. Be unlimited! Most collectors of circus or theatre material go for a few posters to augment a collection, but they find it tough to display more than a few due to size. They are not as avid about the types they own and are happy to own one or two. People who like vintage art are beer and hot dog types who make our country proud. They are avid collectors, but they’re pretty down to Earth, and not the biggest spenders. They are the ones who admire art everyday and welcome to go out and eat in a nice comfortable spot with art on the walls to enjoy it for that brief moment. The circus, early theatre and vintage art is still a vital part of American culture, however, the media through T.V. and radio ads now handles much of the advertising. This changes a art market for advertising and the need of art illustrator assembly line process creating beautiful detailed art. The gaudy posters once plastered on building walls have succumbed to the brightly colored advertising of the 20th Century are making a come back in reproduction prints. this mix media is not intended to reproduce, but create a art from the use of printing painting and artist. This way using machines and hand from time honored vintage art to create a art from to be remembered as more than a paper with art printed on it. It was invented and patented for all of us in mind. Respectfully yours, Terry Hillhouse aka Aubry