Catalogue Number
NMLH.2025.16.1
Object Name
poster
Title
'Smart lad, that Sprague...'
Place
London
People
Ken Sprague, John Oxenbould, Molehill Press
Description
A white poster featuring a black canon on wheels. Four white flowers with green stems and leaves are in the canon's barrel. There is a poem down the side of the canon advertising a change of address and phone number for Sprague's studio.
Ken Sprague was a key figure in British left-wing art in the 20th century. He created explicitly political designs for trade unions, Martin Luther King Jr, the Communist Party, the Labour Party, the Daily Worker newspaper and the 1984-85 Miners' Strike. His most famous works are for the peace movement - Sprague was resolutely anti-war, and designed a substantial catalogue of work communicating anti-war, and anti-nuclear messages.
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