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EDWARD PENFIELD HARPER'S JUNE. 1893.
18 3/4x12 3/4 inches.
Condition A.
"Penfield was probably the first American artist to realize the possibilities of an aesthetic and unified design in posters... his stylized, uncluttered illustrations, which clearly draw their inspiration from the Japanese print, were inventively executed... [and] reveal a fundamental understanding of the psychology of effective publicity in their presentation of the escapist, the select and the elegant." (Keay p. 8). Kiehl 140, DFP I 323.
Condition A.
"Penfield was probably the first American artist to realize the possibilities of an aesthetic and unified design in posters... his stylized, uncluttered illustrations, which clearly draw their inspiration from the Japanese print, were inventively executed... [and] reveal a fundamental understanding of the psychology of effective publicity in their presentation of the escapist, the select and the elegant." (Keay p. 8). Kiehl 140, DFP I 323.
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