Behrens Poster Archive
Preview
Identifier
187
Creation Date
2022
Description
Alt Text: Poster with an image of a brown rocking horse head adjacent to a circle outlined in black. Text in black and gray letters.
Transcription: A Poster Exhibition About the index of American Design. [He, Don Quixote, called his horse] Rozinante, a name [that was], in his opinion, lofty, sonorous, and full of meaning, importing that, he had been only a rozin, a drudge-horse, before his present condition, and that now he was before all the rozins in the world.-Miguel de Cervantes.
Description: A poster based on a painting by John Davis of a wooden rocking horse created as a part of the Index of American Design program of the United States government that ran from 1935 to 1942.
Sub-Collection
Index of American Design
Series Title
Index of American Design
Series Description
The twenty-eight posters in this series were designed in 2022-2023 by Roy R. Behrens, UNI Professor Emeritus and Distinguished Scholar. His intention was to celebrate the efforts of the original American craftspeople, the artists who made the interpretive images, and government sponsorship of the Index of American Design. Many more of the original images, as well as more information, can be found online at the National Gallery of Art at https://www.nga.gov/.
Copyright
©2022 Roy R. Behrens
Type
Image
File Format
image/png
Recommended Citation
Behrens, Roy R., "Index of American Design [poster 04, 2022-2023]" (2022). Behrens Poster Archive. 187.
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/behrens_posters/187
