Posts Tagged ‘Edward Penfield’

Edward Penfield Quote about Poster Art circa 1897

Within the past few years the word Poster has been growing in significance, until now we look upon it as describing a decoration, thoroughly fin de siecle, and perhaps pleasing. A poster should tell its story at once – a design that needs study is not a poster, no matter how well it is executed.…

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Edward Penfield Cafe Scenes

Edward Penfield has been included in The Women and Cats of Art Nouveau Artists (Amazon), a delsc publication. He created several works with cats and is sometimes confused with a Swiss artist, Théophile Alexandre Steinlen. Some of Penfield’s works includes images for Hart, Schaffner & Marx advertisements. These are easily recognized by the logo which…

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