Feb 20 at 10:30 AM - Sale 2695 -

Sale 2695 - Lot 2

Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500

WILLIAM H. BRADLEY (1868-1962)

THE CHAP BOOK. September, 1895.

20½x13¾ inches, 52x35 cm.
Condition A-: expertly-repaired tear at bottom edge, into image; minor creases in image and along horizontal fold. Matted and framed without glass.

On December 30, 1894, an article appeared in the Chicago Sunday Tribune stating that Bradley, as an artist, "was the best in America. No one else has such a wealth of invention, so clear and flowing a line; no one else uses black so boldly and so discriminatingly; above all, no one else makes an equally conscientious effort to get the best decorative effect out of an inch square initial or poster covering half the street . . . Bradley discovered for himself how to place strange but effective blacks, how to weave them with delicate lines into a harmonious drawing, how to enrich them with lavish and skillful ornament" (Koch p. 45). This was Bradley's sixth poster for The Chap Book.

Kiehl 22, DFP-I 153, Koch p. 69, Reims 1137, Margolin p. 99, Keay p. 16, The Met 57.627.4(13).
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