The Owl for Sale Here

The Owl for Sale Here
The Owl for Sale Here

The Owl for Sale Here

Date1896
Artist (American illustrator, 1867–1943)
Illustration CitationAdvertising poster for The Owl, July 1896
MediumTwo-color commercial lithograph
Dimensionscomposition: 17 1/2 × 10 7/16 in. (44.5 × 26.5 cm)
sheet: 18 × 10 13/16 in. (45.7 × 27.5 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1977
Object number1977-17
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ClassificationsPRINT
Label TextAccording to the Freeword in its first issue, the short-lived quarterly The Owl "has no politics, leads no new movements and is not even the oran of any particular generation." In contrast to other experimental journals of the day, The Owl favored samples from recognized writers and artists.