Previous Exhibitions

Steve Brodner | Dan Yaccarino | Hello World | Luba Lukova
Geoff Graham | Charles Burns | Hatch Show Print

Hatch Show Print
June 9 - August 15, 2001

Throughout the first half of this century, Hatch Show Print was one of six leading printers of publicity posters for Country Western music shows, circuses and other forms of regional entertainment. For many decades, these gigantic posters could be seen slapped up on barns, buildings and fences across the South. All of the type was hand drawn and hand carved onto huge wooden blocks, creating incredible type forms that are bold, boxy and unique. Original posters and make-readies from Hatch Show Print will be on display at the Spur Propaganda Gallery, Baltimore’s only gallery dedicated to the graphic arts. In addition, Graphic Designer and Managing Director of Hatch Show Print, Jim Sherraden will be on hand to give an old fashioned slide show a discuss his book “Hatch Show Print: The History of a Great American Poster Shop” which he co-authored with Elek Horvath and Paul Kingsbury.