Saturday, July 31, 2021

Louis Rhead - Art Nouveau Marketing

Louis Rhead
Try Vio-Violet, a new Lundborg Perfume
ca. 1890-1900
lithographic poster
Library of Congress

Louis Rhead
King's Puremalt
ca. 1893
lithographic poster
New York Public Library

Louis Rhead
Packer's Tar Soap
ca. 1895
lithographic poster
Library of Congress

Louis Rhead
The Modern Cleanser (Pearline)
ca. 1893
lithographic poster
New York Public Library

Louis Rhead
L. Prang & Co.'s Holiday Publications
1895
lithographic poster
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Louis Rhead
Prang's Easter Publications
1896
lithographic poster
Indianapolis Museum of Art

Louis Rhead
Cassell's Magazine
1896
lithographic poster
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
(Achenbach Foundation)

Louis Rhead
Le Quartier Latin
ca. 1890-1900
lithographic poster
Library of Congress

Louis Rhead
Morning Journal
1900
lithographic poster
New York Public Library

Louis Rhead
Photochrome Engraving Company
1895
lithographic poster
Library of Congress

Louis Rhead
Scribner's for Xmas
1895
lithographic poster
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
(Achenbach Foundation)

Louis Rhead
The Century Magazine for June
1896
lithographic poster
Library of Congress

Louis Rhead
Century Magazine Midsummer Holiday Number
ca. 1890-1900
lithographic poster
Library of Congress

Louis Rhead
The Century Midsummer Holiday Number
1895
lithographic poster
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Louis Rhead
Advertising in The Sun
gives Best Results

1896
lithographic poster
New York Public Library

Folklore

You shouldn't have a heart attack
in your 20s. 47 is the perfect time
for a heart attack. Feeding stray shadows
only attracts more shadows. Starve a fever, 
shatter a glass house. People often mistake
thirst for hunger so first take a big slurp.
A motorboat is wasted on me even though
all summer the pool was, I didn't
get in it once. Not in it, not in it
twice. A dollhouse certainly isn't wasted
on a mouse both in terms of habitation
and rhyme. Always leave yourself time
to get lost. 50 cattle are enough
for a decent dowry but sometimes a larger
gesture is called for like shouting
across the Grand Canyon. Get used to
nothing answering back. Always remember
the great effects of the Tang poets,
the meagerness of their wine, meagerness
of writing supplies. Go ahead, drown
in the moon's puddle. Contusions
are to be expected and a long wait
in ICU under the muted TVs advertising
miracle knives and spot removers.
How wonderful to be made entirely
of hammered steel! No one knows why
Lee chose to divert his troops to Gettysburg
but all agree it was the turning point 
of the Civil War. Your turning point
may be lying crying on the floor. 
Get up! The perfect age for being buried
alive in sand is 8 but jumping up 33, alluding
to the resurrection, a powerful motif
in Western art but then go look at the soup cans
and crumpled fenders in the modern wing:
what a relief. Nearly 80% of the denizens
of the deep can produce their own light
but up here, we make our own darkness.

– Dean Young (Shock by Shock, 2015)

Friday, July 30, 2021

Edward Penfield (Visions, after 1900)

Edward Penfield
Golfers
1902
watercolor
Library of Congress

Edward Penfield
Tennis Players
1902
watercolor
Library of Congress

Edward Penfield
Country House Calendar
1905
lithograph
Library of Congress

Edward Penfield
Princeton (football player)
1907
lithographic poster
Library of Congress

Edward Penfield
Cornell (baseball player)
ca. 1908
lithographic poster
Library of Congress

Edward Penfield
U of P (runner)
1908
lithographic poster
Library of Congress

Edward Penfield
Yale (hammer-thrower)
1908
lithographic poster
Library of Congress


Edward Penfield
Hart Schaffner & Marx (menswear advertising)
ca. 1912
watercolor
Library of Congress

from Opening Up

Weekend: a country custom, a century old,
English in origin, secular, elite,
depended on railway schedules for its ritual:
breakfast in silver warmers, tweeds till tea,
tennis or croquet when there was no hunting,
dress for dinner, billiards after port,
later, adultery in upstairs bedrooms.

– Peter Davison (Poems, 1957-1995)

Edward Penfield
Hart Schaffner & Marx (menswear advertising)
ca. 1912
watercolor
Library of Congress

Edward Penfield
Hart Schaffner & Marx (menswear advertising)
ca. 1912
watercolor
Library of Congress

Edward Penfield
Couple in Sports Clothes
1913
watercolor
Library of Congress

Edward Penfield
Football Player
ca. 1913
watercolor
Library of Congress

Edward Penfield
Collier's Magazine (cover design)
1915
watercolor
Library of Congress

Edward Penfield
Sailor and Officer
1917
watercolor
Library of Congress

Edward Penfield
Hiram Johnson, Governor of California
1917
watercolor
Library of Congress

Thursday, July 29, 2021

Edward Penfield (Visions, before 1900)

Edward Penfield
Harper's (April)
ca. 1890
lithographic poster
Library of Congress

Edward Penfield
Harper's (January)
1893
lithographic poster
Library of Congress

Edward Penfield
Harper's (August)
1894
lithographic poster
Library of Congress

Edward Penfield
Harper's (October)
1894
lithographic poster
Library of Congress

Edward Penfield
Harper's (November)
1894
lithographic poster
Library of Congress

Edward Penfield
Harper's (June)
1895
lithographic poster
Library of Congress

Edward Penfield
Orient Cycles
ca. 1895
lithographic poster
Library of Congress

from What Beauty Does

Everyone is a thief out West. If you leave your bikes on the porch
They disappear. If you find water, someone else will divert it.
There are those who fight about the wind. Others the sun.
All angling for rights – mineral, water, air – that only come with political power. 

– Patricia Spears Jones (A Lucent Fire, 2015)

Edward Penfield
Harper's (May)
1896
lithographic poster
Library of Congress

Edward Penfield
Harper's (August)
1896
lithographic poster
Library of Congress

Edward Penfield
Harper's (February)
1897
lithographic poster
Library of Congress

Edward Penfield
Harper's (September)
1897
lithographic poster
Library of Congress

Edward Penfield
Harper's (February)
1898
lithographic poster
Library of Congress

Edward Penfield
Harper's (April)
1898
lithographic poster
Library of Congress

Edward Penfield
Harper's (July)
1898
lithographic poster
Library of Congress

Edward Penfield
Harper's (August)
1898
lithographic poster
Library of Congress

Wednesday, July 28, 2021

Angela Grauerholz (Visions, 2010-2018)

Angela Grauerholz
Rose et Bleu
2010
inkjet print
private collection

Angela Grauerholz
Statuette
2011
inkjet print
private collection

Angela Grauerholz
Villa Savoie (Bernard)
2011
inkjet print
private collection

Angela Grauerholz
Spiral Staircase
2011
inkjet print
private collection

Angela Grauerholz
Deux Prises
2012
inkjet print
private collection

Angela Grauerholz
Chambre Verte
2012
inkjet print
private collection

Angela Grauerholz
La Cavalière
2014
inkjet print
private collection

Angela Grauerholz
Marbled Lobby
2014
inkjet print
private collection

Angela Grauerholz
Untitled
2014
inkjet print
Global Affaires Canada, Ottawa

Angela Grauerholz
Deux Dames à Venise
2015
inkjet print
Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec

Angela Grauerholz
Between Two Doors
2017
inkjet print
private collection

Angela Grauerholz
Three Books
2017
inkjet print
private collection

Angela Grauerholz
White Empty Shelf
2018
inkjet print
private collection

Angela Grauerholz
Thalia Theaterlogen
2018
inkjet print
private collection

Angela Grauerholz
La Compteuse, Musée Rodin (Paris)
2018
inkjet print
private collection

Lucidité – Lucidity

     This book is not a book of "confessions"; not that it is insincere, but because we have a different knowledge today than yesterday; such knowledge can be summarized as follows: What I write about myself is never the last word: the more "sincere" I am, the more interpretable I am, under the eye of other examples than those of the old authors, who believed they were required to submit themselves to but one law: authenticity.  Such examples are History, Ideology, the Unconscious.  Open (and how could they be otherwise?) to these different futures, my texts are disjointed, no one of them caps any other; the latter is nothing but a further text, the last of the series, not the ultimate in meaning: text upon text, which never illuminates anything. 

     What right does my present have to speak of my past?  Has my present some advantage over my past?  What "grace" might have enlightened me? except that of passing time, or of a good cause, encountered on my way?  

– Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes, translated by Richard Howard (Hill & Wang, 1977)