Advertising poster for Morning Journal / A Modern Newspaper at a Modern Price
Date1895 or earlier
Artist
Louis John Rhead
(American painter and illustrator, 1857–1926)
Printer/Printmaker
Liebler & Maass Lithograph
(New York printing firm, early 20th century)
Illustration CitationAdvertising poster for (New York) Morning Journal, 1895 or earlier
Les Maitres de l'Affiche, 1900, plate 220
Les Affiches Étrangères.
MediumCommerical lithograph
Dimensionscomposition: 5 7/8 × 7 3/4 in. (14.9 × 19.7 cm)
sheet: 8 5/16 × 12 1/8 in. (21.1 × 30.8 cm)
sheet: 8 5/16 × 12 1/8 in. (21.1 × 30.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1989
Object number1989-86
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextBorn in England, Rhead arrived in New York in 1883 to work for publisher D.Appleton. He gained fame as a poster designer and was the only American artist to achieve the distinction of having a solo exhibition of his poster work both in London (1896) and in Paris (1897).
Jessie Willcox Smith
1919
