Robert Blum's Great Decorative Painting in January Scribner's
Date1895
Artist
William Sergeant Kendall
(American painter, 1869–1938)
Illustration CitationAdvertisement for Scribner's, January 1896
MediumCommercial lithograph
Dimensionssheet: 17 1/4 × 12 1/2 in. (43.8 × 31.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mrs. J. Marshall Cole, 1973
Object number1973-91
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextThe poster depicts the artist Robert Blum, the subject of The Century's main article of the month. Although William Sergeant Kendall was primarily a painter and teacher, he created a number of posters, including three for Scribner's. Kendall lettered the posters himself, replacing the magazine's usual masthead. One critic described Kendall's pared-down figures as "telegraph utterance, short, nervous, incisive, spoken with a dash and go..."
William Sergeant Kendall
1896
