Arthur Wesley Dow – Les Maîtres de l’Affiche : Modern Art, 1895

By DOW Arthur (1857-1922)

Arthur Wesley DOW (1857–1922)
Modern Art – edited by J. M. Bowles, published by L. Prang & Co., 1895 — from Les Maîtres de l’Affiche, PL. 36
Lithograph in colours on wove paper, printed by Imprimerie Chaix, Paris
Signed in the stone lower left; “PL. 36” and Imprimerie Chaix credit printed in the lower left margin; Les Maîtres de l’Affiche blindstamp in the lower right margin
Dimensions:
Sheet: 39 × 29 cm (15.4 × 11.4 in.)
Image: 23.5 × 19 cm (9.3 × 7.5 in.)
Condition:
Good condition; a few tiny spots in the yellow sky and a small spot in the upper right of the image. Unframed.
References: Stanley Appelbaum, The Complete “Masters of the Poster”, Dover, 1990, pl. 36
Period: plate published 1896
Plate 36 of Les Maîtres de l’Affiche (1895–1900), the monthly series of reduced-format posters published under Jules Chéret’s direction by Imprimerie Chaix. Dow, the American master of the Japanese-inspired landscape, designed this poster for the Boston art quarterly Modern Art.
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