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sma,Her printed things used for advertising pur-
poses. The best things shown in the way of small
bookiets were the work of the Cheltenham Press,
which has long borne a reputation for beautifui
printed things appiied to advertising. The Max-
fieid Parrish poster for the Toy Bazaar at Madison
Square Garden was especiaiiy interesting, as it is in
his earlier styie, which we have not seen for some
time. This year, as iast, Wiidhack's posters are
among the very best things in poster art this country
has produced. The work of W'aiter Fawcett is no-
ticeable for its clevemess—that cleverness which we
see rnore in the work of German artists than in that
of any American. It is strongly eye-catching, and
whiie far too clever for use in ordinary advertising,
in piaces where such advertising can be used it is
particuiariy good. A weli-known Cream of Wheat
design by Wyeth was shown in the shape of a iarge
oii painting. Anna Burnham Westerman had an
exceptionaiiy good cover design.
Especiai interest was attached to a showing of
theatrical posters for the Fifth Avenue Theater,
made by F. J. Cooper. Mr. Cooper has been
known to readers of newspapers in New York, as he
is the inventor and desigher of the quaint little Rg-
ures which have been used for some time in the ad-
vertising of the New York Edison Company. He
had one of these figures in large form in a lettered
poster, in red and biack on tan-colored paper, which
was exceiient in every way and was the most notice-
able things at the Electric Show at Madison Square
Garden. His theater posters, however, are note-
worthy because this is almost the hrst time a theater
has gone to an artist of his caiiber for theatricai
work instead of to a lithographer, and, naturaliy, his
posters stand out wherever they are posted as

compared with the dead and deadiy ievel of the
average lithographer's designing. E. E. C.
AN INTERNATIONAL exhibition of pictorial pho-
tography will he held in the galieries of the Na-
tionai Arts Club, opening with a reception on the
evening of February 2. It is hoped that this may
prove to be the most comprehensive and representa-
tiye exhibitiqn of the kind ever heid in this country,
comprisin^ Wotk by the ieading pictoriai photogra-
phers both at home and abroad, Germany, France
and Itaiy being represented by work from the hands
of their ablest men. It is expected that this exhibi-
tion wili demonstrate in a striking manner the possi-
biiities of pictorial photography.
THE American Free Art League has issued copies
of the brief in favor of the removai of the duties on
wdrks of art submitted to the ways and means
committee, Washington, D. C., iast November.
This comprises a discussion of the proposed changes
in the iaw and gives the arguments for free art under
the following heads: The art argument, the educa-
tionai argument, the industriai argument, the artist
argument, the museum argument, the argument
from precedent, the tariff argument and the argu-
ment from pubiic opinion. There foiiows a sum-
mary of the history of art duties and an extract
from utterances on the subject from two hundred
coiiege presidents, two hundred artists, hfty art
dealers, two hundred ofEcers of art museums and
about three hundred newspapers and magazines.
An additional memorandum opposing the sugges-
tion of a specific duty of one hundred doiiars im-
posed upon paintings and art objects made within
the iast one hundred years has been submitted.


ADVERTISING POSTERS DESIGNED BY F. J. COOPER

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