Buckles Blog: Ringling-Barnum MENAGERIE-MSG (1945)

Saturday, September 27, 2008

Anonymous said...: Wonderful selection of lithos!

This particular menagerie scene looks awfully familiar. Could it have been "appropriated" some years later by a show printer on behalf of one or more of the Hugo shows?; 27 September, 2008 09:34
Chris Berry said...: Paul - you are of course referring to a great Menagerie poster that Kelly-Miller started using in the 1950s. While there are many similiarities, there is one signficant difference. If you look closely at the Ringling-Barnum poster you'll see that it includes "Mr. and Mrs. Gargantua" in their cage in the center of the Menagerie. Incidently, copies of this poster by clown-turned-artist Bill Bailey(along with a few others with animals) were given to schools during this period as "educational tools". They were accompanied by a "Key" poster with an explanation of what was pictured on the litho. For example, the "Key to Menagerie" poster is a the same design in black-and-white and has a description of all of the animals in the scene.; 27 September, 2008 11:56
Anonymous said...: The key poster was in black and white and had numbers to the text references under the posters. I believe there were at least six of these posters issued.
Bob Kitto; 27 September, 2008 20:47

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