Scribner's for February
Date1904
Artist
James Preston
(American artist and illustrator, 1873–1962)
Illustration CitationAdvertising poster for Scribner's, February 1904
MediumCommercial lithograph
Dimensionssheet: 22 × 14 1/2 in. (55.9 × 36.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1985
Object number1985-9
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextJames Preston's spare design, with brighter colors against neutral ones, and rounded contours against geometric ones, places the advertised magazine in the foreground.The figure profiled at the window with its winter scene is typical of the Gibson Girl image, the prototype of the ideal American woman popularized by the illustrator Charles Dana Gibson. Around the turn of the 20th century, voluminous clothing and muffs were ways of concealing pregnancy, which may be depicted here.
William Sergeant Kendall
1896
