An Accute Attack of Beardsleyism
Date1896
Artist
Elisha Brown Bird
(American illustrator, 1867–1943)
Illustration CitationSupplement to Poster Lore, February 1896
MediumLithograph
Dimensionscomposition: 4 7/8 × 3 3/4 in. (12.4 × 9.5 cm)
sheet: 6 3/8 × 4 15/16 in. (16.2 × 12.5 cm)
sheet: 6 3/8 × 4 15/16 in. (16.2 × 12.5 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1986
Object number1986-183
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextPoster Lore was a specialty magazine that published for one year (1896) at the height of the so-called poster craze. Bird was a highly successful poster artist. Here he caricatures the British illustrator Aubrey Beardsley, rendering the artist as obsessed and morose, surrounded by the swirling Art Nouveau designs and grotesque forms for which Beardely was famous.
