2288905

Original Edward Penfield Poster #2288905

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Original Edward Penfield Poster #2288905
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Great Penfield original Harper's Poster</em></td>
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In looking at the work of Penfield today, we find less of what strikes us as frivolous and more of a keen sense of design and composition. The Art Center Bulletin of April 1925 remembered his contribution to illustrative art this way: "To everything he produced Penfield brought his great gifts of design and draftsmanship, a wonderful sincerity that never faltered, and a beautiful humbleness of spirit." As early as 1894, just a year and a half after Penfield began a series of monthly images for Harper's, his work was heralded by Publisher's Weekly: "The advertising poster has within recent years actually soared into the regions of art." Penfield is also credited with bringing abstraction to commercial art through his boldly simplified shapes. This and other stylistic trademarks resulted from a distillation of a number of influences, including the compositional precepts and casual poses found in Japanese prints, the hand-craftsmanship of the Arts and Crafts movement, the impressionistic approach of Parisian poster-making, and British poise and directness.
Although his work is most often associated with the posters he created for Harper's Monthly, he also illustrated covers and interiors for other prominent publications including Collier's, Life, Ladies' Home Journal, The Saturday Evening Post, Scribner's and Metropolitan Magazine. In addition, the master's style was readily adaptable to use in advertising as evidenced by his work for Arrow, Kodak, and Pierce Arrow Automobiles as ...
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#: 7441</td>
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<tr><td>Condition:excellent</td></tr>
<tr><td>Year:1890's</td></tr>
<tr><td>Country:USA</td></tr>
<tr><td>Maker:Penfield, Edward 1866-1922</td></tr>
<tr><td>Height:18.75</td></tr>

<tr><td>Width:13.75</td></tr>

<tr><td>Title:Original Edward Penfield Poster</td></tr>
<tr><td>Style:lithograph</td></tr>

<tr><td>Type:lithograph</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location:Laguna Beach, California</td></tr>
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