Lot 60: FLORENCE LUNDBORG (1871-1949) THE LARK / MAY. May, 1896.

24x13 7/8 inches.
Condition B+: restored losses and overpainting in bottom corners; losses in top corners; repaired tears through margins; abrasions in image.
Florence Lundborg, a San Francisco native, was a painter and book illustrator in addition to being a poster artist. Just after the turn-of-the-century she studied art in Paris with James Whistler and then, in 1915, she designed a series of murals for the California Building at the Panama-Pacific Exhibition, for which she received a bronze medal. Her murals also adorn several buildings in New York and Brooklyn. A student of the California Arts and Crafts movement, Lundborg designed a total of 7 woodblock posters for The Lark, believing that woodblock prints had "more of the personality of their inventor than the mechanically produced lithograph [could] possibly have" (posters American style p. 168). For each of her posters, in true artisan fashion, she carved all the blocks herself. Kiehl 120, Margolin p. 133, not in DFP I.