Text : "The Bear Flag Sesquicentennial" & "California Republic" & "1846-1996" & "Sonoma" & "June 14 - July 1996"
Acquired at the 1996 NAVA meeting in Sacramento.
The Bear Flag
Poster commissioned by the California Sesquicentennial Celebration Committee
for the Bear Flag Sesquicentennial, artist Dennis Ziemienski
Sonoma, CA 1996
Dennis Ziemienski, a native San Franciscan, graduated cum laude from the California College of Arts and Crafts.
An internationally known illustrator and designer for 30 years and a member of New York Society of Illustrators, his paintings have been in various one-man and group exhibitions and have won numerous awards.
Dennis has taught at the California College of Arts and Crafts and the Academy of Art in San Francisco. He has had studios in California and New York. Traveling to Europe frequently, Dennis has acquired an affinity for the architecture, lifestyle and light of the Mediterranean.
His strong and richly colored images borrow much of their inspiration from early 20th century paintings and posters.
The name of the model for the person in the poster is a Sonoma local named Ken Brown.
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"The Bear Flag Sesquicentennial" Poster, 1996.
