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)
sheet: 15 1/2 × 11 5/8 in. (39.4 × 29.5 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1986
Object number1986-200
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
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.William McGregor Paxton
1895