An illustrator born in 1866 in Brooklyn, New York, Edward Penfield is known, along with William Bradley and Louis Rhead as being in the forefront of the American Art Nouveau movement. His parents... Read full biography
An illustrator born in 1866 in Brooklyn, New York, Edward Penfield is known, along with William Bradley and Louis Rhead as being in the forefront of the American Art Nouveau movement. His parents were Ellen Lock Moore and Josiah B. Penfield. Ellen was a native of England, and both Edward's father... Read full biography
An illustrator born in 1866 in Brooklyn, New York, Edward Penfield is known, along with William Bradley and Louis Rhead as being in the forefront of the American Art Nouveau movement. His parents were Ellen Lock Moore and Josiah B. Penfield. Ellen was a native of England, and both Edward's father and grandfather, Henry Lewis Penfield, came from Rye, New York. Edward Penfield was the third of five children, and as a boy his health was not strong. He received his elementary education in Brooklyn,... Read full biography
An illustrator born in 1866 in Brooklyn, New York, Edward Penfield is known, along with William Bradley and Louis Rhead as being in the forefront of the American Art Nouveau movement. His parents were Ellen Lock Moore and Josiah B. Penfield. Ellen was a native of England, and both Edward's father and grandfather, Henry Lewis Penfield, came from Rye, New York. Edward Penfield was the third of five children, and as a boy his health was not strong. He received his elementary education in Brooklyn, was cared for by his mother, and sometimes studied at home. As he grew up, he decided to carry on in the footsteps of his uncle Henry Lewis Penfield, his father's brother, to become an artist. Uncle Henry had a 'bureau of engraving' studio in New... Read full biography
An illustrator born in 1866 in Brooklyn, New York, Edward Penfield is known, along with William Bradley and Louis Rhead as being in the forefront of the American Art Nouveau movement. His parents were Ellen Lock Moore and Josiah B. Penfield. Ellen was a native of England, and both Edward's father and grandfather, Henry Lewis Penfield, came from Rye, New York. Edward Penfield was the third of five children, and as a boy his health was not strong. He received his elementary education in Brooklyn, was cared for by his mother, and sometimes studied at home. As he grew up, he decided to carry on in the footsteps of his uncle Henry Lewis Penfield, his father's brother, to become an artist. Uncle Henry had a 'bureau of engraving' studio in New York City and was an artist-engraver who supplied 'cuts' for neighboring publishers. When he was in his early twenties, Penfield enrolled... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (38)
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The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Remembering the Family Farm: 150 Years of American Prints
2001
Goddard, Stephen
0 pages (color)
The Illustrator in America, 1860-2000 The Society of Illustrators
2001
Reed, Walt
452 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
The Art Students League of New York A History (Teachers)
1999
Steiner, Raymond J
0 pages
Posters American Style
1998
Heyman, Therese Thau
192 pages (color)
Eyes of the Nation A Visual History of the United States
1997
Virga, Vincent/Alan Brinkley
400 pages (color)
Covers of the Saturday Evening Post Seventy Years of Outstanding Illustration
1995
Cohn, Jan
298 pages (color)
Designed To Sell: Turn of the Century Posters
1994
Brandt, Frederick R
1,994 pages (color)
American Illustrator Art Official Price Guide
1991
Gilbert Anne
1,991 pages (color)
A Spectrum of Innovation Color in American Printmaking 1890-1960 (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Acton, David
304 pages (color)
Japonisme Comes to America Japanese Impact on Graphics 1876-1925
1990
Meech, Julia/Gabriel Weisberg
256 pages (color)
Wake Up, America World War I and the American Poster
1988
Rawls, Walton
288 pages (color)
The Modern Poster
1988
Wrede, Stuart
263 pages (color)
American Art Posters of the 1890s in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
1987
Kiehl, David W
199 pages (color)
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
National Portrait Gallery Collection Illustrated Checklist
1985
Smithsonian Institution
461 pages
The Illustrator in America, 1880-1980: A Century of Illustration
1984
Reed, Walt and Roger
355 pages (color)
American Landscape/Genre Paintings in the New York Historical Society (3 vols)
1982
Koke, Richard J
1,243 pages
The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art
1981
Rugoff, Milton
669 pages (color)
American Drawing A Guide to Information Sources
1979
Doumato, Lamia
246 pages
The Fine Arts in America
1979
Taylor, Joshua C
264 pages
Golden Age of American Illustration F R Gruger and His Circle
1978
Perlman, Bennard B
232 pages (color)
Turn-of-the-Century America Paintings, Graphics, Photographs 1890-1910 (Exhibition catalog)
1977
Hills, Patricia
194 pages (color)
Nineteenth-Century American Print From the Dartmouth College Collection (Exhibition catalog)
1977
Shackelford, George T M
116 pages
200 Years of American Graphic Art
1976
Hornung, Clarence/F Johnson
211 pages
The Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West
1976
Samuels, Peggy and Harold
549 pages
American Posters of the Turn of the Century
1975
Keay, Carolyn
115 pages (color)
American Poster Renaissance
1975
Margolin, Victor
224 pages (color)
History of Water Color in America
1966
Gardner, Albert Ten Eyck
160 pages (color)
The Illustrator in America 1900-1960s
1966
Reed, Walt
272 pages (color)
American Book Illustrators Bibliographic Checklist of 123 Artists
1938
Bolton, Theodore
290 pages
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index
1935
Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge
1,130 pages
A History of American Painting Revised Edition, Two Volumes in One
1932
Hartmann, Sadekichi
363 pages
Catalogue of the Forty-Sixth Annual Exhibition of the American Water Color Society (Exhibition catalog)
1913
Editor
21 pages
Official Catalogue of Exhibitors Department B, Art (Exhibition catalog)