Fun and Fantasy
1984
Artist
Seymour Chwast
DIMENSIONS
24 x 18 in. (61 x 45.7 cm)
OBJECT NUMBER
PH.4290
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN
United States
CREDIT LINE
Poster House Permanent Collection
KEYWORDS
Brooklyn, Clown, Entertainment, New York, New York City, Park

Chwast’s 1984 poster advertising an exhibition about Brooklyn’s amusement parks and leisure areas at the Museum of the Borough of Brooklyn is predictably unpredictable. Rather than suggesting the range of local entertainments presented in the exhibition, he instead draws the viewer’s attention with a huge, slightly alarming-looking grinning head. In 1987, this poster was one of 15 by Chwast that were reprinted by Mohawk Paper Mills as part of a campaign to introduce its Nuance and Ultrafelt paper lines.

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