EDWARD PENFIELD
1866-1925
Padre del poster Americano. Guarda a Lautrec e Gauguin. Art director di riviste come Harper s,
Harper s Weekly, Harpers Bazaar. Stile sul grafico, non pittorico, giocato tra
figure e scritte. Composizione leteralizzata. Grande importanza del lettering.
Painter, illustrator, lithographer, art director of Harper's,
Harper's Weekiy and Harper's Bazaar from 1891 to 1901, has been calied
the originator of the poster in America; designed all Harper's posters
from 1893 to 1899.
(Appelbaum Stanley, The complete
"Masters of the Poster", Dover Publications Inc.,
New York 1990)
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