"The Dining Rooms - The J.L. Hudson Company" Menu Showing "Skiing at Caberfae," 1949

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Artifact Overview

In 1946, the J.L. Hudson Company, a Detroit department store, commissioned ten American artists to create works that portrayed the people and places of Michigan. A committee selected 95 paintings that toured the state in the exhibition "Michigan on Canvas." J.L. Hudson also reproduced selected works for the covers of menus used in its Detroit flagship store's dining rooms.

Artifact Details

Artifact

Menu

Date Made

16 March 1949

Subject Date

16 March 1949

Location

Not on exhibit to the public.

Object ID

2015.66.15

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of the Family of Nina Hyde Kaufman.

Material

Paper (Fiber product)

Technique

Printing (Process)

Color

Multicolored

Dimensions

Height: 11 in
Width: 8 in

Inscriptions

On front: Skiing at Caberfae / Carlos Lopez / The Dining Rooms-- The J. L. Hudson Company, Detroit On back: "MICHIGAN ON CANVAS" / [...]