Tag: Art nouveau

  • Spotlight on…American Art Posters 1890-1920

                            American companies took notice when French art posters became extremely popular in the 1880’s.  A new lithography process had made economical printing of large editions of posters possible.  American companies commissioned prominent illustrators like Edward Penfield, Will Bradley, Ethel Reed and Maxfield Parrish…

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  • New Collections Added to Digital Commonwealth in March

    March came in like a lion and then refused to leave like a lamb.  Can we get a refund from Mother Nature?  Perhaps a few extra days of fall?  Digital Commonwealth never sleeps, though; witness the many additions to the collections last month. My personal favorite proves that bad hair days are not a 21st…

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