The Pancake King
1988
Artist
Seymour Chwast
DIMENSIONS
24 x 18 in. (61 x 45.7 cm)
OBJECT NUMBER
PH.4398
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN
United States
CREDIT LINE
Poster House Permanent Collection
KEYWORDS
Entertainment, Food, King, Man, Milwaukee, Missouri, Musical, Theater, White

Chwast designed this poster in 1988 for a musical called The Pancake King based on Phyllis La Farge’s 1971 children’s book of the same name (for which he had designed the illustrations). It tells the story of a little boy who becomes such a talented maker of pancakes that he is soon celebrated as “Henry the Pancake King”—but ultimately decides to focus on the things that really matter.

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