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Title

Lake Placid Club [graphic]

Author

Jones, Amy

Published Date

193?

Object Name

Broadside

Control Number

2010.249.0001

Place of Publication

[s.l.]

Publisher

[s.n.]

Physical Description

1 print : photomechanical ; visible image 73 x 56 cm, in frame 94 x 64 cm.

Summary

Amy Wisher Jones was born in 1899 in Buffalo and raised in Brooklyn. She attended the Pratt Institute, designing Christmas cards and illustrating store catalogs to pay her tuition. She married David Blair Jones and moved to Saranac Lake in the 1920s when he was stricken with tuberculosis. In 1937 she entered a competition to paint murals for the Department of the Interior, as part of the Works Progress Administration projects under the New Deal. Entering a series of paintings she called a triptych of three scenes painted from life on the St. Regis Mohawk Indian reservation at Hogansburg, N.Y. The painting, now in the collection at the Adirondack Experience, won Jones a commission to paint a murals based on her St. Regis work in the post offices at Painted Post and Scotia, New York, and Winton, Connecticut. Jones continued to work as a painter and illustrator of books and sales catalogs until her death in California in 1992.

This poster reflects Jones' work as a commercial artist. Poster art played an important role in commercial advertising in the years between the world wars before television. The introduction of offset printing in the early twentieth century permitted the mass production of inexpensive, high quality color images. Jones' poster for the Lake Placid Club was probably produced before the 1932 Lake Placid Olympic Games, as part of an effort by club officials Geoffrey Dewey and Henry Wade Hicks to promote winter sports in America.

Search Terms

Adirondack Mountains (N.Y.)--Pictorial Works.;
Skis and skiing--New York (State)--Lake Placid.;
Broadsides.;

Imagefile

182\20102490001.JPG

Collection

Adirondack Experience Library

Credit line

Purchased with generous support from Bill and Beth Nolan and Jeffrey Sellon.