The Century August, Midsummer Holiday Number
Date1898
Artist
Maxfield Parrish
American painter and illustrator, 1870–1966
Printer/Printmaker
H. A. Thomas & Wylie Litho Co
New York printing company, late 19th - early 20th century
Publisher
Century Company
founded 1881, now defunct
Illustration CitationAdvertising poster for The Century Midsumer Holiday Number, August 1897
Les Maitres de L'affiche, plate 123
MediumCommercial lithograph
Dimensionscomposition: 18 3/8 × 11 15/16 in. (46.7 × 30.3 cm)
sheet: 19 3/4 × 13 7/16 in. (50.2 × 34.1 cm)
sheet: 19 3/4 × 13 7/16 in. (50.2 × 34.1 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mrs. J. Marshall Cole, 1973
Object number1973-54
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextThis design won second prize in The Century's 1896 Midsummer poster contest. The first prize went to J. C. Leyendecker because he held to the rules using only three colors in his poster. Parrish used a lavish five colors for this poster.
