Harvard Dramatic Club 1919 original poster Nat Choate design litho on board

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Harvard Dramatic Club 1919 original poster designed by Harvard student Nathaniel Choate who went on to be a well known painter and sculptor. Llithograph on heavy cardboard, printed by Helio Type Co, Boston, "Nat Choate" signed in plate. The production was two plays, Erasmus Montanus by Holberg and and Fame And The Poet by Dunsanay. Produce by Pi Eta society and the Dramatic Club, later known as the Hasty Pudding Club. The poster measures 13" x 19" and is in great condition, there is a layer of glue in left margin, where it was affixed into a scrapbook for many years, the glue causes gloss in the left margin, visible in photos, and minor loss in the left black border which has minor archival repairs. Presents beautifully. Here is some biographical information about Nat, later known as Nathaniel Choate:
Nathaniel Choate is an important African American artist whose biography is filled with interesting achievements and anecdotes. Choate attended Harvard where he was awarded their Bowers Prize in fine arts and worked on the Harvard Lampoon, an undergraduate humor publication. Just after graduation, he studied at Academie Julian in Paris, among others, and visited a number of countries around the world. During the difficult decade of the 1930s, Nathaniel Choate received a number of large and notable public commissions working in bronze, marble and aluminum, often displaying his own interpretation of Art Deco design influence. He remained active throughout the following decades until his death in 1965. Choate was a member of the National Academy, the National Sculpture Society, the Architectural League of New York, the Ceramic Society, the Century Association and others. He also taught and exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.
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