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Edward Penfield - Collier's, the national weekly

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Local Accession Number: 2012.AAP.279.Title: Collier's, the national weekly.Creator/Contributor: Penfield, Edward, 1866-1925 (artist).Date issued: 1910.Physical description: 1 print : lithograph, color ; 38 x 28 cm..Summary: Woman holding two masks.Genre: Magazine covers; Lithographs.Subjects: Women; Masks.Notes: .Date note: Date from item..Statement of responsibility: [device].Collection: American Art Posters 1890-1920.Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department.Rights: No known restrictions.

Born in 1866, Edward Penfield attended the Art Students League in New York where his work was discovered by an associate editor of Harper’s Magazine. Penfield introduced avant-garde to the American public. His art nouveau poster for Harper's downplayed the dramatic curving lines of the European version and emphasized flat areas similar to aesthetics of Japanese prints and the work of the Post-Impressionists, especially Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. After Harper’s, Penfield continued his commercial work for other publications including Collier’s, Life, Ladies’ Home Journal, The Saturday Evening Post, and Scribner’s. His artwork includes the murals at Harvard University and the St. Louis World’s Fair in 1904. In 1916, he began teaching at the Art Students League, and, by 1921, he was the most influential member of the Society of Illustrators in New York. Penfield died in 1925.

Harper & Brothers began publication of Harper’s New Monthly Magazine in 1850. It was renamed Harper’s Monthly Magazine in the 1900 Christmas issue. Edward Penfield served the Harpers as staff illustrator, editor, and art director from 1890 to 1901. Penfield created his first lithograph for Harper’s Magazine in 1893. He made posters advertising each successive issue of the magazine for over seven years. Penfield also created advertisements and cover designs for books published by Harper and Brothers.

Collier’s magazine, founded in 1888 by Irish immigrant Peter Collier, was launched as a magazine of Collier’s has always commissioned famous writers including Winston Churchill, Ernest Hemingway, Sinclair Lewis, Jack London, F. Scott Fitzgerald, J. D. Salinger, John Steinbeck, Pearl S. Buck, and Kurt Vonnegut to report on historical events, such as World War I and the Spanish Civil War, political events, or to write a short story or serialization of a novel.

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