Artist Posters Collection: Finding Aid

Finding aid prepared by Charla DelaCuadra.

The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.

Prints and Ephemera

The Huntington Library

1151 Oxford Road

San Marino, California 91108

Phone: (626) 405-2191

Email: reference@huntington.org

URL: http://www.huntington.org

©July 2019

Overview of the Collection

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.

Access

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Administrative Information

Publication Rights

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.

Preferred Citation

[Item title, Call number]. Artist posters, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

Provenance

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.

Scope and Content

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.

Alternative Form of Materials Available

Visit the Huntington Digital Library: Prints and Ephemera to view digitized items from this collection.

Related materials in the Huntington Library

Jay T. Last collection of artist posters

Arrangement

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)

Indexing Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the Huntington Library's Online Catalog.

Genres

Book & magazine posters.

Chromolithographs.

Ephemera.

Ephemera -- United States -- 19th century.

Ephemera -- United States -- 20th century.

Lithographs.

Posters.

Printed ephemera.

Promotional materials.

Subjects

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.

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