The July Century
Date1896
Artist
Charles Herbert Woodbury
(American painter and etcher, 1864–1940)
Illustration CitationAdvertising poster for The Century, July 1896
Les Maitres de l'Affiche 1896, plate 32
Les Affiches Étrangères, p. 138
MediumCommercial lithograph
Dimensionscomposition: 13 3/8 × 8 1/4 in. (34 × 21 cm)
sheet: 15 1/2 × 11 3/8 in. (39.4 × 28.9 cm)
sheet: 15 1/2 × 11 3/8 in. (39.4 × 28.9 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1986
Object number1986-192
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextCharles Woodbury not only used the Japanese technique of expanses of flat color to define this image, he clarified his debt to Japan by including Japanese paper lanterns dancing through the space. Woodbury trained at MIT and studied painting at the Académie Julian in Paris.
