Search
- "The Dining Rooms - The J.L. Hudson Company" Menu Showing "Capital City" by John DeMartelly, 1948 - 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.
- July 19, 1948
- Collections - Artifact
"The Dining Rooms - The J.L. Hudson Company" Menu Showing "Capital City" by John DeMartelly, 1948
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.