Alice Lloyd
(c. 1915)
Medium
gouache and gold paint on black composition board
Measurements
102.0 × 76.0 cm irreg.
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased NGV Foundation, 2021
© Courtesy of Iannelli Collection
Gallery location
Not on display
About this work
Artist and designer Alfonso Iannelli emigrated from Italy to the United States in 1898, commencing his artistic career shortly after moving to Los Angeles in 1910. In 1912 he was employed by the newly-opened Orpheum Theater to design lobby windows and hand-painted advertising boards (showcards) for travelling vaudeville acts, producing as many as four showcards per week. Iannelli’s early designs reflected Art Nouveau and turn-of-the-century graphic art. This showcard advertising the English vaudeville singer Alice Lloyd is a strong example of Iannelli’s stylised, reductive graphic design.
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
Los Angeles, California, United States
Inscription
inscribed in brush and red gouache l.r.: Iannelli.
Accession Number
2021.293
Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings