Velox Ward - The Home My Daddy Built Poster, from America The Third Century, Bicentennial series, 1976

Velox Ward - The Home My Daddy Built Poster, from America The Third Century, Bicentennial series, 1976

Offset lithograph poster

Velox Ward - The Home My Daddy Built Poster, from America The Third Century, Bicentennial series
This poster publicizes the edition which was sponsored by Mobil Corporation to celebrate America's Bicentennial
Distributed by APC Editions to museums and galleries
Limited edition of 5000
unframed; not signed
The Project: The collection was commissioned in 1975 by the Mobil Oil Corporation to celebrate the upcoming 1976 American Bicentennial (the nation's 200th birthday), inviting 13 notable contemporary artists to offer their visual perspective on entering a "third century" of American history.
• The Medium: While the master portfolio contains a series of limited-edition signed prints (such as collotypes, screenprints, and lithographs), this specific print serves as a large-scale exhibition poster distributed by APC Editions to galleries and museums nationwide.
• The Artist & Style: Known as a "naive" or "memory" folk artist, Velox Ward began painting late in life, meticulously documenting scenes from early 20th-century rural Texas. The Home my Daddy Built represents a nostalgically detailed, flat-perspective depiction of a country homestead in winter.