Advertising poster for The Lark, May 1895
Date1895
Artist
Bruce Porter
(American painter, muralist, stained-glass designer, 1865–1953)
Illustration CitationAdvertising poster for The Lark, May 1895
MediumThree-color lithograph
Dimensionssheet: 18 3/8 × 12 5/16 in. (46.7 × 31.3 cm)
Credit LineAcquired through the gift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1993
Object number1993-134
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextThe Lark was a literary magazine published in San Francisco by Gelett Burgess and Bruce Porter between 1895 and 1897. The magazine published serious literature as well as nonsense poems—most famously “The Purple Cow” by Burgess—and other more playful material. Porter’s choice of a naked figure playing the pan-flute reflected the magazine’s free-spirited, bohemian sensibility. Advertisers employed subversive figures like pans, satyrs and devils to market products and publications outside the mainstream.
James Montgomery Flagg
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William McGregor Paxton
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