Known as the innovator of the Art Nouveau Movement in America, William Bradley was an illustrator and designer whose work drew on the contrasting influences of William Morris and Aubrey Beardsley. Bradley had a distinguished career as one of the country's leading typesetters and publication art editors.

From 1894, his commission poster and cover-design work initiated the poster craze in America, and he regarded his commitment to art in posters as assisting business with beautiful presentations. Multifaceted, Bradley organized his own publishing firm, the Wayside Press; designed type faces, wrote and illustrated stories in his magazine, Bradley, His Book; and served as art director for several magazines....