ORIENT DELIGHTS ORIENT'S MOST FAMOUS SWEETS
Unidentified
ca. 1920
Medium
Painting
Classification
Painting
Department
Smithsonian Collection
Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Credit
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr. and museum purchase made possible by Ralph Cross Johnson
Accession Number
1986.65.151
Tags
mosquemoonsign
About this artwork
This sign was probably painted for a candy factory in Hoboken, New Jersey. Images from the Middle East became fashionable in the early twentieth century, and the domed building on this sign, which resembles the Blue Mosque in Istanbul, reinforces the idea that the candy actually came from the âOrient.â
About the Artist
Unidentified ( ) · –