ORIENT DELIGHTS ORIENT'S MOST FAMOUS SWEETS
ca. 1920
- Medium
- housepaint on plywood
- Dimensions
- 91.5 × 183 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-139157
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.”
Provenance
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr. and museum purchase made possible by Ralph Cross Johnson
Registry history
- ca. 1920 — Recorded in the collection of Smithsonian American Art Museum
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