Big City Four 1915 Alfonso Iannelli Orpheum Theater Art Deco poster 1968 edition
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• Big City Four 1915 Alfonso Iannelli Orpheum Theater Art Deco poster, 1968 edition• 31.5" x 41.5", wear and tear along edges, please see photos, colors are vivid• Alfonso Iannelli designed these images for the Orpheum Theater in Los Angeles in 1915.• Alfonso Iannelli (1886-1965), born in the small town of Andretta, Italy, came to the U.S. at the age of 12, and approximately 5 years later won a scholarship to the Art Students League in New York. Adept at both painting and sculpture, he started his career in commercial graphic design, opening his own studio where, by 1907, he was contributing drawings to Harper's and The Ladies Home Journal.In 1910, he went to Los Angeles, and opened a design studio. Soon afterwards, the builders of the new Orpheum theater asked him to paint lobby "showcards" (at $5.00 a piece) for the traveling vaudeville acts. Iannelli couldn't have known at the time, at the age of 24, that his new job designing the lobby window for Los Angeles' new Orpheum Vaudeville Theater could lead to his breakthrough into Modernism.Iannelli's Orpheum posters gave vaudeville audiences a tangible advertisement for a new Modernism just flowering in avant-garde circles. The vibrant, geometrized figures he painted to represent the usual dog acts, comedians, dancers and singers on the circuit lines the theater's lobby with abstractions
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