Prints, Drawings, and Photographs Invitation to a So-Called Tea Made in United States, North and Central America1930 Rockwell Kent, American, 1882 - 1971. Printed by Elmer Adler. Printed at Pynson Printers, New York. Printed for Random House, New York. Photomechanical metal relief print and color linocut with letterpress text on cream wove paper Currently not on view 1971-2-313 Purchased with the Lola Downin Peck Fund from the Carl and Laura Zigrosser Collection, 1971 |
LabelKent made this print as an invitation to a party given in his honor by the Random House publishers in celebration of his contributions to their illustrated books. As the martini glasses and shaker in the print suggest, this “so-called tea” was in fact a cocktail party, thrown during the years when the consumption of alcohol was banned in the United States. |
