ORIENT DELIGHTS ORIENT’S MOST FAMOUS SWEETS

Unidentified, ORIENT DELIGHTS ORIENT'S MOST FAMOUS SWEETS, ca. 1920, housepaint on plywood, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr. and museum purchase made possible by Ralph Cross Johnson, 1986.65.151
Copied Unidentified, ORIENT DELIGHTS ORIENT'S MOST FAMOUS SWEETS, ca. 1920, housepaint on plywood, 36 x 72 in. (91.5 x 183.0 cm.), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr. and museum purchase made possible by Ralph Cross Johnson, 1986.65.151
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Artwork Details

Title
ORIENT DELIGHTS ORIENT’S MOST FAMOUS SWEETS
Artist
Unidentified
Date
ca. 1920
Location
Not on view
Dimensions
36 x 72 in. (91.5 x 183.0 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr. and museum purchase made possible by Ralph Cross Johnson
Mediums
Mediums Description
housepaint on plywood
Classifications
Keywords
  • Cityscape — celestial — moon
  • Object — other — sign
  • Architecture Exterior — religious — mosque
Object Number
1986.65.151
Linked Open Data
https://edan.si.edu/saam/id/object/1986.65.151

Artwork Description

This sign was probably painted for a candy factory in Hoboken, New Jersey. Images from the Middle East became fashionable in the early twentieth century, and the domed building on this sign, which resembles the Blue Mosque in Istanbul, reinforces the idea that the candy actually came from the “Orient.”