Living Posters

Date1897

Artist Frank Hazenplug (American engraver, 1874–1931)

Illustration CitationAdvertising poster for a Chicago poster exhibition. Les Maitres de L'Affiche, 1897, plate 87

MediumTwo-color commercial lithograph

Dimensionscomposition: 12 3/4 × 9 in. (32.4 × 22.9 cm)
sheet: 15 1/2 × 11 5/8 in. (39.4 × 29.5 cm)

Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1986

Object number1986-200

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ClassificationsPRINT

Label TextFrank Hazenplug worked as a staff artist for the Chicago publisher Stone & Kimball. Living Posters was commissioned as a placard for a Chicago fund raising poster exhibition. Hazenplug's dramatic color schemes and spare details exemplify what became known as the poster style.