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.... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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.... Read full biography
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. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, he... Read full biography
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. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, he was the son of a cartoonist. As a child he was fascinated by type, printing and illustration, and when he... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (33)
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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
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
Posters American Style
1998
Heyman, Therese Thau
192 pages (color)
Will H Bradley: His Work, A Bibliographical Guide
1995
Bambrace, Anthony
261 pages
Advertising, Artists & the Borders of Art
1995
Bogart, Michelle H
427 pages
Designed To Sell: Turn of the Century Posters
1994
Brandt, Frederick R
1,994 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)
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
The Illustrator in America, 1880-1980: A Century of Illustration
1984
Reed, Walt and Roger
355 pages (color)
The Drawing of America Eyewitnesses to History
1983
Davidson, Marshall
256 pages (color)
Dictionary of American Artists
1982
Opitz, Glenn
372 pages
American Drawing A Guide to Information Sources
1979
Doumato, Lamia
246 pages
Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics)
1979
Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel
736 pages
The Fine Arts in America
1979
Taylor, Joshua C
264 pages
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
American Master Drawings and Watercolors A History of Works on Paper
1976
Stebbins, Theodore E
464 pages (color)
Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection
1975
Editor, Smithsonian
0 pages
American Posters of the Turn of the Century
1975
Keay, Carolyn
115 pages (color)
American Poster Renaissance
1975
Margolin, Victor
224 pages (color)
The Art of America in the Gilded Age
1974
Glubok, Shirley
49 pages
Will Bradley His Graphic Art
1974
Hornung, Clarence P (editor)
120 pages (color)
Illustrators of Children's Books 1744-1945
1961
Mahony, Bertha E (others)
527 pages
Art Noveau Art and Design at the Turn of the Century (Exhibition catalog)
1959
Selz, Peter/Mildred Constantin
192 pages
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