Art of the Draw: Advertising Posters
from the McCormick-International Harvester Collection
PRINTING TECHNOLOGY POSTER
The Painter's Last Gasp
his poster represents an intermediate stage in the mechanical reproduction of images. While the images of the implements and their operators were derived from photographs, the details of sky and hills were hand-painted onto the printing plates in the traditional lithographic manner. Although hand painting persisted in fine art printmaking, it yielded to photographic techniques in commercial lithography.
Color Lithograph, 1919
Printed by Rolland & Carqueville Co.
(Chicago)
for
International Harvester
Co. (Chicago)
30" x 20"
WHI 33585