At the Sign of the Automobile

At the Sign of the Automobile
At the Sign of the Automobile

At the Sign of the Automobile

Date1908
Artist (American illustrator, 1874–1925)
Illustration CitationCover for Collier's Weekly, January 16, 1909
MediumGouache on illustration board
Dimensions26 x 19 in. (66 x 48.3 cm)
frame: 32 × 28 in. (81.3 × 71.1 cm)
Credit LineAcquisition Fund, 1990
Object number1990-31
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextAfter several years as a designer of advertising posters, Guernsey Moore brought the bold color and graphic clarity of the poster to the magazine cover, here presenting the anachronism of a colonial lady being borne by her servants in the new age of automobiles.
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