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Description:
The ennui of the man in the poster is palpable, as his his high-class bearing - without knowing anything about him, one just KNOWS that he must be from a prominent family, probably Eastern seaboard, maybe Boston, and that he is thinking about some very important matters which pertain to business, or family, or family business. The cut of his clothing, the manner of his bearing, all of it speaks bespoke ... and mirrors the elegance of his class, and of the artist who conceived him, William Sargeant Kendall, a friend and colleague of Charles Dana Gibson. Of the artist it has been written: "William Sergeant Kendall was born in New York in 1869 and trained at the Art Students League and with Thomas Eakins at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Like most painters of his generation, he went to Paris and studied at the Académie Julian and the École des Beaux-Arts, an academic training that never left him despite his later fascination with the luminous effects of Impressionism. His subjects relate stylistically to the Boston school. His subjects were most notably mothers and children as well as female nudes. He taught at the Art Students League, Cooper Union, and later, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the Carnegie Institute. He was the dean of the School of Fine Arts at Yale from 1913 through 1922."(Adelson) As for Scribners, Wikipedia writes: "The firm was founded in 1846 by Charles Scribner I and Isaac D. Baker as "Baker & Schribner". After Baker's death Scribner bought the remainder of the company and renamed it the "Charles Scribner Company." In 1865 the company made its first venture into magazine publishing with Hours at Home. In 1870 the Scribners organized a new firm, Scribner and Company, to publish a magazine entitled Scribner’s Monthly. After the death of Charles Scribner I in 1871, his son John Blair Scribner took over as president of the company. His other sons Charles Scribner II and Arthur Hawley Scribner would also join the firm, in 1875 and 1884, and later also served as presidents. When the other partners in the venture sold their stake to the family, the company was renamed Charles Scribner's Sons. The company launched a well-known magazine for children, St. Nicholas Magazine, in 1873 with Mary Mapes Dodge as editor and Frank R. Stockton as assistant editor. The Scribner family sold this company to outside investors in 1881 and Scribner’s Monthly was renamed the Century Magazine, with the Scribners enjoined from publishing any magazine for a period of five years. In 1886, at the expiration of this term, Scribner's Magazine was launched. The firm's headquarters were in the Scribner Building, built in 1893, on lower Fifth Avenue at 21st Street, and later in the Charles Scribner's Sons Building, on Fifth Avenue in midtown. Both buildings were designed by Ernest Flagg in a Beaux Arts style." Condition A Paper, linen backing. Poster measures approx. 12 x 17 inches. Please note that all of our posters are vintage, non-reproduction works of art. Thank you! We are happy to ship worldwide - please note that the price listed for international shipping is for standard surface mail delivery which takes (depending on where you live, between 2-4 months)- international courrier costs for FedEx, DHL, UPS or other companies will be quoted at the time of purchase, based on the buyer's location.
| Status: For Sale |
Reference#: DBWSK |
| Condition:
A |
Year:
1920 ca
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| Country:
US |
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| Height:
17 in. (43.18 cm) |
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Width: 12 in. (30.48 cm)
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| Title:
1920's - William Sargeant Kendall - Scribners |
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| Materials:
paper, linen |
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