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Poster, Adventures of an Abandoned Child
This is a Poster. It was designed by Georgii Augustovich Stenberg and Vladimir Augustovich Stenberg. It is dated 1926 and we acquired it in 2014. Its medium is lithograph on paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
The Stenberg brothers created dozens of film posters in the Soviet Union in the 1920s. Using a projector they would enlarge frames from a movie, such as an actor’s face, and trace the image. This technique enabled the designers to control the scale and tonality of their images, and blend them seamlessly with type and abstract elements.
This object was
donated by
Merrill Berman.
It is credited Gift of Merrill C. Berman in honor of Ellen Lupton.
![A vertically rectangular poster framed with a white border depicting a bluescale image of the head of a woman, Jenifer Lewis, with a bouffant, 1960s hairdo, contrasted against a bright yellow, solid background. She has an unrestrained, urgent, possibly distressed expression on her face, with a jaw-dropped open mouth, wrinkled forehead, long-eyelashed eyes wide, and eyebrows raised. The left half of her face is in shadow, slightly obscuring her features, while the right half is overexposed and bright white. Black sans serif text, outlined in orange, in bold, capitalised letters of varying weights and spacing, expands from her mouth, as though she is shouting or singing the words, in a windmill-like projection with four diagonal axes. Going clockwise from the left the text states [THE / DIVA / IS DISMISSED / CO-WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY / CHARLES / RANDOLPH-WRIGHT / CO-WRITTEN AND PERFORMED BY / JENIFER LEWIS / LIMITED ENGAGEMENT! / NOW PLAYING!]. Most of the words are oriented from left to right on a diagonal, except for two words, [THE] & [CHARLES], which are oriented vertically. In the top right corner, aligned vertically along the right margin, is some additional text, which states: [THE], which is orange and aligned right to left and upside down; [PUBLIC] which is black with an orange outline and aligned vertically top down; [THEATER], which is black with an orange outline and aligned horizontally. Below this is the logo of the theater, a black circle with a stylised orange [S] inside and the words [SHIVA / THEATER] in orange capitals. Below the logo is the address and phone number of the theater; [425 LAFAYETTE STREET (212) 598-7150]. In the top left corner, in tiny black font is some text that is illegible, aligned vertically along the left margin.](https://images.collection.cooperhewitt.org/80074_7f51450f46fe4e37_n.jpg "Poster, The Diva is Dismissed, 1994")
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Its dimensions are
H x W: 101.3 × 71.9 cm (39 7/8 × 28 5/16 in.)
Cite this object as
Poster, Adventures of an Abandoned Child; Designed by Georgii Augustovich Stenberg (Russian, 1900-1933), Vladimir Augustovich Stenberg (Russian, 1899 - 1982); Russia; lithograph on paper; H x W: 101.3 × 71.9 cm (39 7/8 × 28 5/16 in.); Gift of Merrill C. Berman in honor of Ellen Lupton; 2014-20-1
