Harper's November – Vintage Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Harper's November, preserved in this vintage poster. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Harper's November
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Among Edward Penfield's monthly posters for *Harper's*, this November issue shows his bold, flat-color style, which helped reshape magazine advertising in the 1890s. Penfield designed the series for Harper & Brothers of New York, and the lithograph was meant to be read quickly from a distance, with simple shapes and a limited palette doing most of the work. Its place on a Thanksgiving board fits the month it advertises, though it was a seasonal promotion for the magazine rather than a holiday picture. Posters like this drew on French designers such as Jules Chéret, and they helped establish the printed advertisement as a form of graphic art that collectors still prize.
| Created / published | c. 1894 |
|---|---|
| Medium | print,poster, lithograph, color, 48 x 34 cm. |
| Notes | Edward Penfield. New York, Harper & Brothers, |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 2,456 × 3,481 px · prints to 8 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 20 |
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