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Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
CHARLES RUSSELL LOOMIS (1857-1936)
HILLYER INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL EDUCATION. Two posters. 1895.
Each 42¼x14 inches, 107¼x35½ cm. R.S. Peck & Co., Hartford. Condition generally B / B+: losses, replaced losses and repaired tears in margins; restoration along seams; slight offsetting in image; each with a hand-written note in ink at the bottom. Each two-sheets.
The Hillyer Institute grew out of the Hartford, Connecticut YMCA in 1893, dedicated to providing working men with access to evening classes in many different fields of study. One of their earlier brochures explained that their mission "shall be to promote manual, industrial, commercial, and art education - in art, more especially in useful arts - and to inculcate habits of industry and thrift." This Arts and Crafts image is signed by "C.R. Loomis," a watercolorist who was active in Hartford, although the style seems nothing like his work. The inscriptions, by William Macey Stone, who rendered Loomis' design onto the woodblock, read: "One of ten copies in red and black, on laid paper - To Ms. Dorothy Furman, with the compliments of Wilbur Macey Stone Oct. 95." The yellow and black has the same inscription, except it is one of eleven copies.
