Tear sheet - Here and now - The new Jazz Age and dresses that make it swing ! | McCord Museum

Tear sheet

Here and now - The new Jazz Age and dresses that make it swing !

Artist Eugenie Groh (1919 - 2017)

SignatureOn front, handwritten, l.c.: Eugenie

InscriptionsOn front, printed on newsprint paper, u.l.: 22 / THE GAZETTE, TUESDAY, AUGUST 6, 1964; on front, printed on newsprint paper, u.c.: Here and now - the newJazz Age / and the dresses / that make it swing! / Dubbed discothèque, / their look slithery, / slipsy; their necklines, quite / dipsy. Often black, always "gear" / (that's beatle for "with it") they're apt to / twist and shout at the drop of a beat [...]; on front, printed on newsprint paper, l.c.: EATON'S / A. Doing the Shimmy [...]; on back, printed on newsprint paper: [...]

Period Milieu 20e siècle

Dimensions54.6 × 38.2 cm

ClassificationCommunication Objects - Documentary Objects - Other Documents

Origin Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Object NumberM2017.118.348

DivisionDocumentary Art

CreditGift of Georgine Strathy

Status

Not on view

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