Chinese Cultural Revolution Poster

Smiling, in a star-capped cap, rendered in a single orange line.

Printers in China made this Cultural Revolution poster in ink on paper in the 20th century. Posters of the period, commonly associated with 1966 to 1976, were often printed as portraits with a short caption. Here a broadly smiling figure in a peaked cap with a red star is drawn in loose orange-red lines on white. The collar and shoulders are sketched in, and two lines of large red characters sit beneath, with smaller text in the lower corners.

About 30 by 21 inches. Light-handed and bright as paper gets.