This Day In Art History: on June 7, 1918, the Penguin Club, a group of anti-establishment artist tricksters led by Walt Kuhn, held their Strawberry Festival. Dress code was casual: attendees were instructed to wear “a Woolworth Straw Hat, or dress to look like a Rube of some sort.”
Flyer for the Penguin Club’s Strawberry Festival, 1918. Walt Kuhn, Kuhn family papers, and Armory Show records, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

This Day In Art History: on June 7, 1918, the Penguin Club, a group of anti-establishment artist tricksters led by Walt Kuhn, held their Strawberry Festival. Dress code was casual: attendees were instructed to wear “a Woolworth Straw Hat, or dress to look like a Rube of some sort.”

Flyer for the Penguin Club’s Strawberry Festival, 1918. Walt Kuhn, Kuhn family papers, and Armory Show records, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

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