EDWARD PENFIELD HARPER'S JUNE. 1893. 183/4x123/4 inches. Condition A. "Penfield was probably the first American artist to realize the possibilities of an aesthetic and unified design in posters . . . his stylized, uncluttered illustrations, which clearly draw their inspiration from the Japanese print, were inventively executed . . . [and] reveal a fundamental understanding of the psychology of effective publicity in their presentation of the escapist, the select and the elegant." (Keay p. 8). Kiehl 140, DFP I 323.
