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William L Carqueville
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William L Carqueville |
| Birth Year : |
1871 |
| Death Year : |
1946 |
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US |
Although he studied in Paris for a brief time, Will Carqueville lived in Chicago for most of his life. He founded his own
lithographic press there and designed posters for Lippencott's as well as other American literary magazines. His style was
somewhat influenced by another American poster artist, Edward Penfield. In the United States, as in Europe at this time,
literary magazines flourished and several-Harper's, Lippencott's, Scribner's, and The Atlantic Monthly in particular-helped
to popularize the current style of poster design, associating it with the cultural tastes of the day.
Carqueville's work is classically American: clean, stylish, simple, and direct. American artists tended to be influenced
by the British more than by the ornate and flamboyant French Art Nouveau. With the exception
of
Will Bradley and a few others, the Americans were not typically
Art Nouveau at all. Their work was more realistic, still highly decorative, but not filled with the swirling abstract
flowers of
Mucha or Beardsley. Rather, they retained the graceful
outlines and flat areas of color which had originally been inspired by Japanese prints.
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"There is but one Paris and however hard living may be here, and if it became worse and harder even-the French air clears up the brain and does good-a world of good."
