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Posters by Mark Gonyea

2012  “Aesop’s Fables” poster by Mark Gonyea.  Two copies.  12” x 16”.  Story Posters.  Purchased from the artist on Etsy, August, ‘18. 

Here is a fascinating approach to fables.  The poster has eleven “blocks” of 3 x 3 images.  Blocks have uniform blue, tan, and green backgrounds to let them be easily identified.  Each block presents one fable through black-and-white images.  A good example is the first, which pictures TH.  By the third image, they are at the starting point.  By the sixth, we have seen the hare racing and the tortoise plodding.  The crucial seventh image shows the hare sitting perched against a tree.  He awakens in the eighth, and the ninth shows the tortoise crossing the finish line.  For another good presentation, follow DS in the lower left.  The crucial middle image shows the bone falling.  This is clever work!

2012  3 “Aesop’s Fables” posters by Mark Gonyea.  12” x 16”.  Story Posters.  $19 each from the artist on Etsy, August, ‘25. 

I was excited to learn that  Mark Gonyea had done large prints or small posters of specific sections of his lovely more comprehensive poster above.  He was good enough to see to the printing of one segment that he was not yet offering online.