Spade Your Garden Now - It Must Feed You Better Next Year / Rudolph Scheffler / Swift and Company (printer)
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 1954/2.35.84
- Title
- Spade Your Garden Now - It Must Feed You Better Next Year
- Artist
- Rudolph Scheffler
- Artist Nationality
- American
- Artist Life Dates
- Germany, 1884-1973
- Medium and Support
- color lithograph on paper
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1917-1919
- Object Creation Place
- North and Central America (continent)
- United States (nation)
- Illinois (state)
- Creation Place 1
- North and Central America (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- United States (nation)
- Creation Place 3
- Illinois (state)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mr. Maurice F. Lyons
- Style/Group/Movement
- poster
- Dimensions
- 48 cm x 31.5 cm (18 7/8 in. x 12 3/8 in.)
- Century
- 20th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Primary Object Type
- chromolithograph
- Physical Description
- Text: Spade Your Garden Now - It Muse Feed You Better Next Year - The Poster Contributed by Swift and Company - War Garden Bureau = Food Production and Conservation Committee - State Council of Defense of Illinois
- Primary Keywords
- clouds
- father
- hats
- hoe
- kneeling
- males
- mother
- posters
- soldiers
- standing
- wars
- world war i
- Secondary Keywords
- armed conflicts
- army
- atmospheric effects
- clothing
- declaratory and advertising artifacts
- events
- family
- figures
- gardens
- hay
- how we live
- information artifacts
- information artifacts by function
- information forms
- military
- modern and contemporary art
- objects
- objects we use
- people and culture
- people and occupations
- relationships
- text-based art
- the natural world
- war
- world wars
- Rights
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Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 893 x 1325
- File Size
- 158 KB
- Record
- 1954/2.35.84
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1954-sl-2.35.84/1954_2.35.84.jpg
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"Spade Your Garden Now - It Must Feed You Better Next Year; Rudolph Scheffler; Swift and Company (printer)." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1954-sl-2.35.84/1954_2.35.84.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 18, 2024.
