Cornell Baseball 1908

Title

Cornell Baseball 1908

Artist

Chas W Beck Jr

Medium

Drawing - Drawing

Description

Cornell Baseball (1908) by Chas W. Beck Jr.

Cornell University is a private Ivy League research university located in Ithaca, New York. It was founded in 1865 and is consistently ranked as one of the top universities in the United States. Cornell is known for its wide range of academic programs, including agriculture, engineering, business, and the arts. The university has over 14,000 undergraduate and graduate students enrolled, and its campus spans over 2,300 acres. Cornell is also home to various research centers and institutes, such as the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the Cornell Center for Materials Research.

This illustration was done as a magazine cover and poster for Cornell University.

The image is attributed to Edward Penfield; see bio below. However, it is clearly signed by artist Chas W. Beck Jr.

I was unable to find a biography on Chas W. Beck.


Edward Penfield - American, 1866 - 1925

Edward Penfield was an American illustrator in the era known as the "Golden Age of American Illustration" and he is considered the father of the American poster. His work has been included in almost every major book on American Illustration or the history of the poster. He is also a major figure in the evolution of graphic design.

He was born June 2, 1866 in Brooklyn, New York to Ellen Lock Moore and Josiah B. Penfield. He first studied at New York's Art Students League. He worked under George de Forest Brush, who was known for his romantic scenes of American Indian life. He first worked for Harper's Weekly and later became art director. He developed his own unique style of simplified figures with bold outlines in settings free of extraneous detail. He believed, "A design that needs study is not a poster, no matter how well executed." He wrote and published a book titled Holland Sketches, which was published by Scribner's in 1907.

Penfield lived in New Rochelle, New York, a popular art colony among actors, writers and artists of the period. The community was most well known for its unprecedented number of prominent American illustrators. He was one of the founding members of the New Rochelle Art Association which was organized in 1912.

His posters were bold and stood out from a distance with great clarity. As artists like Alphonse Mucha, Théophile Steinlen and Toulouse-Lautrec popularized the poster in Europe, Penfield accomplished the same feat in the United States. For his posters, Penfield utilized simple shapes and a limited palette of colors that lent themselves to the primitive methods of reproduction of the era.

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