Name: Edward Penfield — High Adventure | Vintage Minimalist Book Cover Print
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SKU: 1496641943
Price: 106.00 USD
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Edward Penfield — High Adventure | Vintage Minimalist Book Cover Print

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Edward Penfield — High Adventure | Vintage Minimalist Book Cover PrintEdward Penfield's High Adventure book cover is a study in modernist restraint: a single figure, a limited palette, and the infinite suggestion of blue. Edward Penfield (18661925) was the art director of Harper's Monthly and one of the founding figures of American poster design. His clean flat colours, bold silhouettes, and stripped back compositions anticipated Art Deco by a generation. A champion of the bicycle, the sporting life, and the New Woman,

when something stops you — not because of what you know about it

His clean flat colours

and printed by a single artist

symbolic depth

His works — intimate

His works are distinguished by their scientific precision and atmospheric luminosity in the tradition of the Hudson River School

each bringing to their work an observation of human experience so precise and so feeling that their paintings feel permanently present

"And the fact that a lot of people break down and cry when confronted with my pictures shows that I can communicate those basic human emotions

Quranic manuscripts from the Abbasid

intimate voice

His abstract tiger prints

Franz Stamkart was a Dutch painter whose work in the Symbolist tradition engaged with themes of armour