I Couldn't Lift This Barrel Pink Elephant, San Francisco, 1930s [Portrait Prints] Sizes:A3 (297x420mm) Archival Print (Unframed) 100% Cotton Kitchen towel 19

100% Cotton Kitchen towel 19 x 29"

Courtesy Lou Greenstein

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The artwork is by Frank Henry Mason (1875-1965)

I Couldn't Lift This Barrel Pink Elephant, San Francisco, 1930s [Portrait Prints] Sizes:A3 (297x420mm) Archival Print (Unframed) 100% Cotton Kitchen towel 19Also available as a square print. The euphemism seeing pink elephants was first used in the 19th century to describe the hallucinations experienced by drinkers of absinthe, the anise flavored and highly alcoholic beverage associated with bohemian culture, especially among artists and writers in Paris. Vincent Van Gogh, Ernest Hemingway and Oscar Wilde were well known absinthe drinkers. Absinthe was banned by 1915 but the phrase remained popular up to