The Chap-Book

The Chap-Book
The Chap-Book

The Chap-Book

Date1896
Artist (American engraver, 1874–1931)
Illustration CitationAdvertisement for The Chap-Book
MediumTwo-color lithograph
Dimensionscomposition: 13 1/4 × 7 7/8 in. (33.7 × 20 cm)
sheet: 15 7/8 × 10 7/8 in. (40.3 × 27.6 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1977
Object number1977-239
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPRINT
Label TextThe Chap Book was a literary magazine published in Chicago from 1894-1898, dedicated to "all that is most modern and aggressive in the Young Man's literature." The magazine introduced little known writers and poets of the era, such as William Butler Yeats, Henry James, Henrik Ibsen, H. G. Wells, and Arthur Rimbaud to American audiences.

Frank Hazenplug was a designer for Stone and Kimball, the publishing house which inaugurated the "little magazine" in America. These publications were periodicals dediated to short stories, poetry, essays, criticism, book reviews and other broadly literary genres (as opposed to larger commercial magazines).The art poster was their primary means of promotion. Hazenplug's dramatic color schemes and spare details exemplify what became known as the poster style.
Living Posters
Frank Hazenplug
1897
The Chap-Book
Elisha Brown Bird
1896
The Echo
Frank Arthur Nankivell
1895
Book News
Maxfield Parrish
1895
The Chap Book
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
1895, printed 1950
The Chap-Book, May 1894
William H. Bradley
1894
The Chap-Book
William H. Bradley
1895
© Joe Goode. Photograph and digital image © Delaware Art Museum. Not for reproduction or public…
Joe Goode
1971