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#(34) KARL KARDEL (BEE):
Edition of 1850 in full color, of which 100 copies are signed. Two sets of signed progressives.
February 20, 1974 8 colors 18" x 24"
A further edition of 208 in black, white, red & grey of which 25 copies are signed
Client: Karl Kardel, Karl Kardel Company, 4926 East 12th Street, Oakland CA 94601. Telephone (510) 261-4150
(Print September/October 1974; Print's Poster USA 74; Communication Arts, January/February 1977; Print Casebooks 1, 1975; Images of an Era: The American Poster 1945-1975, The National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, 1975) (facsimile)
Second
edition, change in copy from "builders" to "designers" .
Roman numeral II in a circle above the signature
block. Edition of 4796 of which four sets of
progressives are signed.
February 18, 1978 18" x 24" Eight colors
Of the signed copies, 50 to The Poster San Francisco, 25 to The Summer Squash, Washington DC, & 25 to India Ink, LA. (Print September/October 1974; Print's Poster USA 74; Communication Arts, January/February 1977; Print Casebooks 1, 1975; Images of an Era: The American Poster 1945-1975, The National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, 1975) (facsimile)
Second edition, change in copy from "builders" to "designers" . Roman numeral II in a circle above the signature block. Edition of 4796 of which four sets of progressives are signed. February 18, 1978 18" x 24" Eight colors
How doth the little busy bee improve
each shining hour?* Well, how doth it indeed?
By working. All things cometh to him that waiteth,
providing he worketh like hell while he waiteth.
* How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower! -Isaac Watts (1674-1748) Divine Songs (1715), 16, Against Idleness and Mischief