The last years of the 19th century can undoubtedly be called the height of illustration art. At that time, posters and billboards, magazines and book titles were designed almost exclusively by illustrators, whose art was thus the focus of public attention. One of those who had a decisive influence on this period was Edward Penfield, who was born in Brooklyn and is often regarded today as the "father of the American poster". Penfield had enjoyed formal artistic training at the New York Art Student`s League and then moved on to the famous Harper`s Magazine, whose artistic director he later became. In this role, Penfield was responsible for the design of the magazine's cover pages.
It is thanks to Penfield's individual style that these covers have become contemporary works of art, making illustration an even more widely recognized art form. To this day, these works with their expressive elegance are symbolic of the time around the turn of the century. Penfield achieved this recognition through the use of new available techniques, especially in the field of color printing. In the figures he drew, he dispensed with too many details and used strong lines for contouring. Inspired by Japanese artists and poster art, which was growing in Europe at about the same time, Penfield established illustration as a separate art form and prepared the ground for the subsequently developing discipline of graphic design.
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.jpg "Poster advertising Harpers New Monthly Magazine, Christmas 1897 by Edward Penfield")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-602513).jpg "Spanish sketch, c.1911 by Edward Penfield")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-602511).jpg "Sketch of a Spanish man, 1906 by Edward Penfield")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-383709).jpg "Poster advertising Harpers New Monthly Magazine, August 1893 by Edward Penfield")
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.jpg "Advertisement for Hart, Schaffner & Marx Clothes, pub. 1900 by Edward Penfield")
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.jpg "Poster Calendar, published by R.H. Russell and Son, 1897 by Edward Penfield")
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.jpg "Harpers September, 1896 by Edward Penfield")
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.jpg "June/July, Detail from 1931 Golfing Calendar by Edward Penfield")
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.jpg "Bookplate by Edward Penfield")
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.jpg "The Doughboys Make Good by Edward Penfield")
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.jpg "January, detail from 1931 Golfing Calendar by Edward Penfield")
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.jpg "September (detail) from 1931 Golfing Calendar, published 1931 by Edward Penfield")
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.jpg "Front Cover for Cadet Days, by Capt. Charles King U.S.A., New York, 1894 by Edward Penfield")
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.jpg "Will you Help the Women of France? World War One poster by Edward Penfield")
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.jpg "Poster Promoting Three Gringos in Central America and Venezuela by Richard Harding Davis by Edward Penfield")
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.jpg "The Valentine Letter, Poster by Penfield for Harper")
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.jpg "The Illustrated Sporting News, Christmas Number by Edward Penfield")
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.jpg "Drum Horse of the Scots")
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.jpg "A young woman sitting beside a table holding an umbrella by Edward Penfield")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-394382).jpg "The Illustrated Sporting News, Christmas Number, 1900 by Edward Penfield")
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