False Image Decal

1969

Philip Hanson

Associated Names
Philip Hanson

Artist, American, born 1943

Chicago Decal Company

Printer, American, founded 1932

The image features a collection of outlined shapes and lines with a prominent use of color. At the top, a wavy banner with the words "HEARTS DESIRE" arches over a pattern of red roses against a grid-like background. Below the banner, a broken heart is entwined with blue ribbons. A black swan emerges from stylized water. Adjacent to that, a black gloved hand holds a red jewel. In the lower part of the image, a skull decorated with vivid lines, red liquid flowing from its mouth, and a blue snake coiled through it creates an abstraction. A dagger plunges through the snake. A hand with red-painted nails grasps a blue chalice. A red and blue serpent coils around a column to the right. Each element is connected through the use of color and line, with the name "HANSON" inscribed at the bottom.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    commercially manufactured decal

  • Credit Line

    Purchased as the Gift of Stephen Dull

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 24.45 × 17.46 cm (9 5/8 × 6 7/8 in.)
    image: 21.91 × 14.29 cm (8 5/8 × 5 5/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2015.157.7


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Acquired for NGA by purchase from Roger Brown Study Collection in 2015.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2018

  • Sense of Humor: Caricature, Satire, and the Comical in Prints and Drawings from Leonardo to the Present, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2018 - 2019.

Inscriptions

signature screened into image, lower right: HANSON; screened text upper center: HEARTS DESIRE

Markings

printed in blue on verso: [list with text similar to titles of works by artist Philip Hanson; directions for affixing decal] Chicago Decal Company / Chicago, Illinois / 72887

Wikidata ID

Q77015888

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