Poster

Title:

New Hampshire

Object Name:

Poster

Object ID:

2018.003.17

Creator:

Cosgrove, Alice (1909-1971)Illustrator; Bovie Screen Process Printing CompanyPrinter

Place of Origin:

Concord, NH

Date:

1958

Description:

Poster. New Hampshire, by Alice Cosgrove (1909-1971), 1958. Silkscreened, ink on paper. Autumn scene with covered bridge at right, mountain and church in background, and autumn leaves in foreground. In red, orange, yellow, blue and purple. Signed, "AC" lower left on blue. Lower margin titled: "NEW HAMPSHIRE". Printed in lower left: "Copyright 1958 New Hampshire State Planning and Development Commission, Concord / Printed in U.S.A. by Bovie Screen Process Prtg. Co., Concord NH". Framed.

Material:

Paper

Dimensions:

H-37.75 W-25 inches

Provenance:

The donor was director of the New Hampshire State Planning and Development Commission, for which her friend Alice Cosgrove worked.

Artist Alice (Ericson) Cosgrove (1909-1971) was born in Concord and studied art at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston after graduating from Concord High School in 1925. After completing school she married fellow artist Roland Cosgrove and settled in Boston. Alice Cosgrove returned to Concord and found work through the Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project in 1935. During World War II she worked for Hoyt Electrical Instrument Works designing precision dials for equipment. In 1946, Cosgrove began working for the New Hampshire State Planning and Development Commission, designing and producing a wide variety of promotional materials for the state. She is best remembered for her design of "Chippa Granite," the wholesome, freckled boy who was the face of New Hampshire tourism for more than a decade. Cosgrove retired and died in 1971.

Credit Line:

Gift of the Estate of Mary Louise Hancock

People:

Cosgrove, Alice (1909-1971)

Subjects:

Advertising, Covered bridges, Autumn, Mountains, Tourist trade posters, Tourism, White Mountains