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
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.”