Ilona Granet

Curb Your Animal Instinct [Emily Post Street Signs]
1986

A pink sign with bold black text at the top reading "CURB YOUR ANIMAL INSTINCT" and the same message in Spanish "CONTROLA TUS INSTINTO ANIMALE" at the bottom. The sign features silhouetted figures: a person on the left holding a leash attached to a wild-looking creature in the middle, and a human figure on the right recoiling from the creature. The background is slightly scratched, and there are four holes at the corners for mounting.
A pink sign with bold black text at the top reading "CURB YOUR ANIMAL INSTINCT" and the same message in Spanish "CONTROLA TUS INSTINTO ANIMALE" at the bottom. The sign features silhouetted figures: a person on the left holding a leash attached to a wild-looking creature in the middle, and a human figure on the right recoiling from the creature. The background is slightly scratched, and there are four holes at the corners for mounting.

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Date
1986

Classification
Prints

Medium
Stencil and enamel on metal

Dimensions
Sheet: 25 × 26in. (63.5 × 66 cm) Image: 21 5/8 × 23 3/4in. (54.9 × 60.3 cm)

Accession number
2018.156

Series
Emily Post Street Signs, Updated & Expanded, 1986-1987

Edition
Ed. 100

Publication
Printed and published by Ilona Granet

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from Nancy Poses and Fern Kaye Tessler

Rights and reproductions
© Ilona Granet

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