Advertising poster for Boston Park Guide
Date1894
Artist
Charles Herbert Woodbury
(American painter and etcher, 1864–1940)
Illustration CitationAdvertisement for Boston Park Guide by Sylvester Baxter
MediumCommercial lithograph
Dimensionscomposition: 17 3/4 × 11 in. (45.1 × 27.9 cm)
sheet: 19 × 12 in. (48.3 × 30.5 cm)
sheet: 19 × 12 in. (48.3 × 30.5 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1977
Object number1977-94
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextWhile Charles Herbert Woodbury was a painter, known especially for his coastal New England scenes. But he also benefited from the "poster craze" of the 1890s, when American organizations - following the success of their French counterparts - employed artists to design posters for advertising and various types of public information. In her 1895 article The Art of the Poster, journalist Lilian Whiting described this work as an exemplar of posters that do not merely inform but serve as "a thing of beauty, an object to communicate a thrill of delight, and a power to enlarge the general outlook of life."
William McGregor Paxton
1895
