"The Dining Rooms - The J.L. Hudson Company" Menu Showing "Spring in the Fruit Country," 1949
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In 1946, the J.L. Hudson Company, a Detroit department store, commissioned ten American artists to create works that portrayed the people and places of Michigan. A committee selected 95 paintings that toured the state in the exhibition "Michigan on Canvas." J.L. Hudson also reproduced selected works for the covers of menus used in its Detroit flagship store's dining rooms.
In 1946, the J.L. Hudson Company, a Detroit department store, commissioned ten American artists to create works that portrayed the people and places of Michigan. A committee selected 95 paintings that toured the state in the exhibition "Michigan on Canvas." J.L. Hudson also reproduced selected works for the covers of menus used in its Detroit flagship store's dining rooms.
Artifact
Menu
Date Made
04 March 1949
Subject Date
04 March 1949
Creators
Place of Creation
United States, Michigan, Detroit
Creator Notes
Original art by Doris Lee for J. L. Hudson Company, Detroit, Michigan.
Collection Title
Location
Not on exhibit to the public.
Object ID
2015.66.14
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of the Family of Nina Hyde Kaufman.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Technique
Printing (Process)
Color
Multicolored
Dimensions
Height: 11 in
Width: 8 in
Inscriptions
On front: Spring in the Fruit Country / Doris Lee / The Dining Rooms-- The J. L. Hudson Company, Detroit On back: "MICHIGAN ON CANVAS" / [...]
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