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January 23, 2020, Filed Under: Art, Digital Collections, Exhibitions + Events, Featured1, Theatre + Performing Arts

The Golden Age of Magic Posters

Lithograph

The turn of the twentieth century was a period of innovation, when advances in printing and color lithography coincided with a new golden age in the performance of magic and illusion. This convergence resulted in the most stunning, color-saturated advertisements in the history of magic.

January 8, 2020, Filed Under: Art, Books + Manuscripts

Take a look at the sketches in the beloved books illustrated by Arthur Rackham

by TRACY BONFITTO The turn of the twentieth century was the Golden Age of Illustration in the U.S. and the U.K., when, thanks to advances in print technology, a vigorous public appetite for finely illustrated books was met with works by illustrators such as Arthur Rackham (English, 1867-1939). On the… read more 

July 22, 2019, Filed Under: Art, Exhibitions + Events

Detecting forgeries of Aubrey Beardsley’s influential artworks

ink drawing by Aubrey Beardsley

“Pray forgive my frankness when I say that two of them are not only not by A.B. [Aubrey Beardsley], but are not in the least like him! It is astonishing to me how many people are taken in. Is it not perhaps because they buy a name and not a… read more 

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