Keep fit classes [poster], ca. 1935 / Mary M. Abbott

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fonds

ca. 1935

Graphic Materials, Textual Records, Drawings

1038186

1 drawing - 55.8 x 37.4 cm - poster, with text, black and red ink on thin card

Mary Abbott must have drawn this poster for the keep fit classes on the deck of a ship. The poster has holes made by drawing pins in each corner

The poster features a young woman in a fashionable suit easily handling two suitcases and a hatbox, all drawn in black ink. The verse is drawn diagonally across the top left hand corner of the poster and the keep fit class details are in bold black and red lettering on th elower edge. The poster seems to be drawn by a professional commercial artist

Text of the poster:
"When life is becoming a bore-
And your trunks mount to luggage galore
Just bend from the knees --
Keep fit if you please
And you'll carry your trunks with ease"

"Join the KEEP FIT classes held from 7-15 a.m. to 7-45 a.m. on the poop deck"

Poster signed Mary M. Abbott under the figure

Unable to find information on Mary M. Abbott, apart from her dates, but probably not the feminist and Aboriginal artists called Mary Abbott of the 1970's

Reference:
Australian Art Sales Digest. http://www.aasd.com.au/ (accessed June 6, 2013)