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Prepared from the source scan: surroundings removed and the sheet levelled where required. The source record remains available below.
The WPA & the Golden Age · The American Golden Age
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, a Sketch by Lily Lewis Rood, Poster by Ethel Reed
Ethel Reed (1874-1912) · Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, a sketch, by Lily Lewis Rood, 1895
Format
Archival pigment giclée on museum-grade matte art paper, color-managed to the source scan — the flat inks and stone grain intact. The 40×60 is the room-changer.
Size
$39.00
What it is
Ethel Reed's 1895 chromolithograph poster for Lily Lewis Rood's sketch of the French muralist Pierre Puvis de Chavannes; the sheet is 53.4 by 37.4 cm.
Why it matters
Reed made her name in Boston in exactly these years, and her work drew notice in Europe as well as at home.
What to notice
The poster borrows its subject's calm: pale, still and decorative, like a Puvis wall.
A painter introduced to Boston by a poster.
Provenance
- School
- The American Golden Age — the Poster before 1931 (United States)
- Designer
- Ethel Reed (1874-1912)
- Format
- Advertising poster
- Poster published
- Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, a sketch, by Lily Lewis Rood, 1895
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 2002721215
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (published 1930 or earlier). Gated by the poster’s own publication year. Cleared by registry on 2026-11-01.
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