Signup on the door of 205 Recitation Hall. Back in Newark around Midnight. Society of Illustrators will be having their annual advertising and institutional illustration exhibition featuring about 300 original illustrations from the past two years. There will be several other graphic design and advertising related exhibitions. Admission is free.
Admission is free.
The 19th century was the heyday for wallpaper production and use. Manufacturers had perfected block-printing techniques, and customers were willing to cover their walls with intricate patterns and scenes. The 19th century is also viewed as a time when landscape painting became especially important. Depictions of landscapes were seen as metaphors for spiritual and even national aspirations, and were found in paintings for the wealthy by artists such as Thomas Cole as well as anonymous wallpapers produced for sitting rooms of the middle class. The exhibition examines the intersection of art and industry, drawing upon the Museum's extensive holding to explore an element of everyday life that reflected the cultural consciousness of an era.