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Title: Artist posters collection
Dates (inclusive): approximately 1883-1910
Bulk dates: 1890-1900
Collection Number: priHHC_ART
Extent:
187 items
Repository:
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.
Prints and Ephemera
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, California 91108
Phone: (626) 405-2191
Email: reference@huntington.org
URL: http://www.huntington.org
Abstract: The Artist posters collection at the Huntington Library contains over 180 printed works from the late 19th and early 20th
centuries.
The bulk of the materials date from 1890 to 1900 and advertise American literary books and periodicals. Bicycles, household
goods, and other products are also advertised.
Notable illustrators represented in the collection include William L. Carqueville, Charles Dana Gibson, J. J. Gould, William
Sergeant Kendall, J. C. Leyendecker, Maxfield Parrish, and Edward Penfield.
Subjects addressed within the collection include international art styles (such as Art Nouveau), fashion, graphic design,
publishing, book and literary journal publication, advertising, and the intersections between them, especially during the
last decade of the 19th century.
Language: English.
Note:
Finding aid last updated on July 25, 2019.
Open to qualified researchers by prior application through the Reader Services Department. For more information, contact Reader
Services.
The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material,
nor does it charge fees for such activities.
The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining necessary permissions rests with the
researcher.
[Item title, Call number]. Artist posters, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
The provenance of the Artist posters collection is primarily unknown. Approximately two dozen posters were received as gifts
from Brenda H. and Gary M. Ruttenberg from 1994 to 1998.
The Artist posters collection at the Huntington Library contains over 180 printed posters from the late 19th and early 20th
centuries.
The bulk of the materials date from 1890 to 1900 and advertise American literary books and periodicals. Bicycles, household
goods, and other products are also advertised.
Materials are fully inventoried, and all
printers, artists, and publishers are indexed by name. Notable illustrators represented in the collection include William
L. Carqueville, Charles Dana Gibson, J. J. Gould, William Sergeant Kendall, J. C. Leyendecker, Maxfield Parrish, and Edward
Penfield.
Subjects addressed within the collection include international art styles, fashion, graphic design, publishing, product advertising
and the intersections between them, especially during the last decade of the 19th century. The designs encompass the popularization
of Art Nouveau in
the United States, as well as the
advertising strategies employed by various industries in the 19th and early 20th
centuries. As graphic materials, the items offer evidence of visual culture and
printmaking techniques and trends, as well as information about the artists,
engravers, lithographers, printers, and publishers involved in the creative process.
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Items are arranged alphabetically by artist and described in the following format:
- Call number. Title of print. Date
- Artist(s) (when known). Printer(s). Publisher(s)
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the
Huntington Library's Online Catalog.
Book & magazine posters.
Chromolithographs.
Ephemera.
Ephemera -- United States -- 19th
century.
Ephemera -- United States -- 20th
century.
Lithographs.
Posters.
Printed ephemera.
Promotional materials.
Advertising -- Books.
Advertising -- Periodicals.
Bicycles -- Pictorial works.
Books -- Pictorial works.
Children -- Pictorial works.
Couples -- Pictorial works.
Flowers -- Pictorial works.
Men -- Pictorial works.
Reading -- Pictorial works.
Women -- Pictorial works.
Printer, Publisher, Artist Index
The following is a complete list of printers, publishers, and artists represented in this collection.
A.C. McClurg & Co.
Bac, Ferdinand, 1859-1952.
Beardsley, Aubrey, 1872-1898.
Berthon, Paul, 1872-1909.
Bird, Elisha Brown.
Boussod, Valadon & Cie.
Carqueville, William L., 1871-1946.
Castaigne, J. Andre.́
Century Company.
Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William), 1865-1933.
Charles Scribner’s Sons.
Chip, 1862-1894.
Christy, Howard Chandler, 1873-1952.
Collin, Dwight Ripley.
Cox, Charles A.
Cox, Kenyon, 1856-1919.
Dow, Arthur W. (Arthur Wesley), 1857-1922 .
E.A. Weeks & Company.
Edwards, George Wharton, 1859-1950.
Emerson, Ralph L.
Flagg, James Montgomery, 1877-1960.
Forbes Lithograph Manufacturing Company.
G.H. Buek & Co.
Gibson, Charles Dana, 1867-1944.
Gould, J. J., Jr. (Joseph J.), 1880-1935.
Grasset, Eugène, 1841-1917.
Gunn, Archie, 1863-1930.
H.A. Thomas & Wylie.
Hampe, Theo., active 1893.
Harper & Brothers.
Haskell, Ernest, 1876-1925.
Heliotype Printing Co.
Henry Holt and Company.
Herford, Oliver.
Hudson-Kimberly Pub. Co.
Huyot, Jules Jean Marie Joseph, 1841-
Imprimerie Chaix.
International News Company (New York, N.Y.)
J. Ottman Lithographic Company.
J.B. Lippincott Company.
J.S. Virtue and Co.
Joseph Knight Company.
Kendall, William Sergeant, 1869-1938.
Lamson, Wolffe & Co.
Lawrence, H. M.
Leloir, Maurice, 1853-1940.
Leyendecker, J. C. (Joseph Christian), 1874-1951.
Lincoln, A. B. W.
Linson, Corwin Knapp, 1864-
Low, Will Hicok, 1853-1932.
Lundborg, Florence, 1871-1949.
Mayer, Henry, 1868-1954.
McCarter, Henry, 1864-1942.
McManus, Blanche, 1869-1935.
McVickar, H. W. (Harry Whitney), 1860-
Moores, A. J.
Nankivell, Frank A. (Frank Arthur), 1869-1959.
Newell, Peter, 1862-1924.
Norton, M. E.
Ogden, Henry Alexander, 1856-1936.
Orcutt Litho Co.
Orr, Arthur A.
Parrish, Maxfield, 1870-1966.
Penfield, Edward, 1866-1925.
Pierce, E. S.
Prendergast, Maurice, 1858-1924.
R.H. Russell (Firm)
Reed, Ethel, 1874-1912.
Remington, Frederic, 1861-1909.
Rhead, Louis, 1857-1926.
Rhodes, J. E. (James Edward), 1877-
Rhodes, Jos. E.
Richardson, Frederick, 1862-1937.
Roush, L. L.
Russell, Robert Howard.
Sharp, L.
Sherwood, Rosina Emmet, 1854-1948.
Shober & Carqueville.
Skinner, E. F.
Smith, F. Berkeley (Frank Berkeley), 1869-1931.
Stewardson, John.
Stone & Kimball.
Vanderhoof, Charles A.
W.B. Orcutt Company.
Wagner, Rob, 1872-1942.
Weinholdt, M. (Moritz), 1861-1905.
Wenzell, A. B. (Albert Beck), 1864-1917.
Wilhelm Hoffmann AG.
Woodbury, Charles H. (Charles Herbert), 1864-1940.