Poster for The Century Midsummer Holiday Number
Date1896
Artist
Joseph Christian Leyendecker
(American painter and illustrator, 1874–1951)
Illustration CitationAdvertising poster for The Century, August 1896
MediumCommercial lithograph
Dimensionssheet: 21 1/8 × 15 13/16 in. (53.7 × 40.2 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mrs. J. Marshall Cole, 1973
Object number1973-46
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextThis design won The Century Magazine’s Midsummer 1896 poster contest. Promising monetary awards and public exposure, such competitions attracted aspiring artists and illustrators. Around seven hundred designs were submitted to the competition. Elihu Vedder, F. Hopkinson Smith and Henry J. Hardenburg served as judges.
Joseph Christian Leyendecker
1918
