Auto Races / Bridgewater Grange Park vintage poster
Caption Brief: This poster advertises a Fourth of July dirt-track race featuring dangerous, open-wheel sprint cars at Bridgewater Grange Park, a short-lived regional agricultural venue in Massachusetts. These holiday races were major community events, showcasing stripped-down, front-engine race cars speeding on flat fairground ovals typical of the early American racing era. While American Art Deco often followed a different visual path from its European counterpart, this poster has a character entirely its own. Bold, direct, and distinctly American, it combines strong graphic appeal with an evocative glimpse of the period’s popular culture.
1936
41⅛ h × 28⅜ w in (104 × 72 cm)
Buck Printing Co., Boston
Provenance: Collection of William Crouse
Condition: Cond B: with overpainting throughout, touched-up losses, tears, and cracking.
Literature: The Art Deco Poster, Crouse, p. 187
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Caption Brief: This poster advertises a Fourth of July dirt-track race featuring dangerous, open-wheel sprint cars at Bridgewater Grange Park, a short-lived regional agricultural venue in Massachusetts. These holiday races were major community events, showcasing stripped-down, front-engine race cars speeding on flat fairground ovals typical of the early American racing era. While American Art Deco often followed a different visual path from its European counterpart, this poster has a character entirely its own. Bold, direct, and distinctly American, it combines strong graphic appeal with an evocative glimpse of the period’s popular culture.
1936
41⅛ h × 28⅜ w in (104 × 72 cm)
Buck Printing Co., Boston
Provenance: Collection of William Crouse
Condition: Cond B: with overpainting throughout, touched-up losses, tears, and cracking.
Literature: The Art Deco Poster, Crouse, p. 187
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Time, Location
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