Lot 35: Boston Sunday Herald, The/Ladies Want It/Feb. 24. 1895.

Boston Sunday Herald, The/Ladies Want It/Feb. 24. 1895.Rogers, the British artist and critic, commented in 1901: "Judging by numbers, quality, and general excellence of her work, the name Ethel Reed will suggest itself as the foremost of present-day women posterists. Her success does not rest upon one or two works, but she can claim a long succession of clever designs, executed in a manner both versatile and convincing . . . Here we have a woman seeing things with women's eyes, and translating them into designs at once graceful, full of refined fancy, and exquisite colour" (p. 121). Case in point, this exquisite design for the Boston Sunday Herald, one that not only promotes a publication with a targeted female demographic, but one that reflects an image of women back to the viewer to which they can ideally identify-literate, intelligent and attractive. Who could ask for more?
ETHEL REED (1876-?)

12 3/8 x 17 3/4 in./31.5 x 45 cm

1895.0

B+/ Slight tears at paper edges.

PRINTER
Boston Eng. Co.