1920s West Side Characters Print, Jazz Age New Yorkers, Tony Sarg Wall Art
12″×16″
$42.00
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No skyline, no landmarks. Just the people.
In 1926, Tony Sarg filled a whole page with the characters you'd pass on Manhattan's West Side: a beat cop with his nightstick, a flapper in yellow fringe, a man lost in his newspaper, an old gentleman polishing his glasses, a dandy in a top hat no bigger than your thumb, and one small dog looking up at all of them.
It's people-watching from a hundred years ago, and you'll start recognizing a few of them on your own block.
Pairs well with its companion print, East Side Characters.
About this print
Reproduced from Tony Sarg's Up & Down New York (1926), a book of 24 color illustrations of the city. Sarg is best known as the father of modern American puppetry, and a year after this book came out, he designed the first giant balloons for the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
I scanned every plate from a facsimile of the book at high resolution and spent months cleaning them up, removing dust, scratches, and printing dots and correcting the color.
Printed to order on archival matte paper. This is a new print, not an original plate. Frame not included.
1920s West Side Characters Print, Jazz Age New Yorkers, Tony Sarg Wall Art
$42.00
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In 1926, Tony Sarg filled a whole page with the characters you'd pass on Manhattan's West Side: a beat cop with his nightstick, a flapper in yellow fringe, a man lost in his newspaper, an old gentleman polishing his glasses, a dandy in a top hat no bigger than your thumb, and one small dog looking up at all of them.
It's people-watching from a hundred years ago, and you'll start recognizing a few of them on your own block.
Pairs well with its companion print, East Side Characters.
About this print
Reproduced from Tony Sarg's Up & Down New York (1926), a book of 24 color illustrations of the city. Sarg is best known as the father of modern American puppetry, and a year after this book came out, he designed the first giant balloons for the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
I scanned every plate from a facsimile of the book at high resolution and spent months cleaning them up, removing dust, scratches, and printing dots and correcting the color.
Printed to order on archival matte paper. This is a new print, not an original plate. Frame not included.
Details
Every Gaslight Prints poster is reproduced from Tony Sarg's original 1927 New York folio, carefully restored from period source material and printed on premium archival matte paper for rich, accurate color and a museum-quality finish.
- Archival matte paper with a smooth, non-glare surface
- Fade-resistant pigment inks
- Available in 12×16 and 18×24
- Sold unframed
- Each print ships flat and protected, or rolled in a rigid tube for larger sizes
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Shipping
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