EDWARD PENFIELD HARPER'S MAY. 1893. 181/2x127/8 inches. Condition B+: discoloration along top edge, affecting text; creases and wrinkles in upper right margin; creases in lower left corner. Penfield's earliest posters "clearly illustrated his understanding of an effective poster, its simplicity and good composition, which he coupled with subtle humor most often expressed by visual references to the proverbial qualities of the seasons and by quiet comments on the lifestyles of the more leisured classes of American society" (Kiehl p. 13). In 1894, other magazines and journals jumped on the poster bandwagon, both fueled by and igniting the poster craze, but through 1893, Penfield's posters were virtually the only ones available for public consumption. Kiehl 139, DFP I 322.
