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The Blue Lady, poster for The Chap-Book
Will H. Bradley1894
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Poster for The Chap-Book, August 1894. A woman dressed in blue at the center of the image stands in a wood, holding a pair of skates. The words The Chap / Book, printed in red cover the lower left portion of the poster.Two-color lithograph: red and blue.
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Details
- Title: The Blue Lady, poster for The Chap-Book
- Creator: William Henry Bradley
- Creator Lifespan: 1868/1962
- Date Created: 1894
- Type: Poster
- Rights: Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. Gilbert W. Chapman and Ely Jacques Kahn
- Medium: Lithograph on thin, cream wove paper
- Viewing Notes: This is Bradley's second poster for The Chap-Book, frequently called "The Blue Lady". Bradley executed a number of designs as promotional pieces for The Chap-Book, his Chicago based publication that is considered the American public's introduction to the sinuous curves of the Art Nouveau style.
- Signed: in stone lower right: BRADLEY
- Provenance: Thomas G. Boss Fine Books, Boston, MA
- Paper Support: Wove paper
- Dimensions: 50.8 x 35.6 cm (20 x 14 in.)
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