Cleland's Decorative Work -1929- ART DECO CADILLAC Advertisement

CLELAND'S DECORATIVE WORK PRINTS

This 82 year old lithograph was rescued from Alfred E. Hamill's "THE DECORATIVE WORK OF T.M. CLELAND", published in New York by The Pynson Printers in 1929.

THE ARTIST

T.M. CLELAND (1880-1964) Thomas Maintland Cleland was a much respected book designer and commentator. He began at 16 to design and publish books from his basement, self-taught. At the "ripe" age of 20, he moved to Boston and published under the imprint Cornhill Press, named after the street where he lived. D. B. Updike of Merrymount Press was an early mentor, who provided commissions and endless criticism. Cleland went on to work as art designer for McClure’s Magazine, the Locomobile Company of America, the Westvaco Corporation, the Cadillac Motor Car Company, and Fortune Magazine, In the 1930s, he made a series of calendar illustrations for the Harris, Seybold, Potter Company of Cleveland Ohio, which established their fed-offset process as a quality printing technique. In between commercial work, Cleland illustrated fine press editions for which he is most remembered today.

CONDITION

The lithograph is in very good condition, with usual age toning. The image is about 9 " x 6 1/2" on a page that is about 12 " x 9 " . Unfortunately there is a round library stamp on the right bottom corner. Fortunately when matted, the stamp hardly shows. (See pic).  The litho is suitable for framing and would make an excellent gift. 

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The litho that is being

offered for sale features:

   "1927 ART DECO CATALOGUE AD FOR CADILLAC SEVEN PASSENGER TOURING CAR"

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

Hill fait paraître General Natural History (deux volumes, 1748 - 1752 ), Useful Family Herbal ( 1754 ), British Herbal ( 1756 - 1757 ), Eden, or Compleat Body of Gardening ( 1757 ), Exotic Botany ( 1759 , deuxième édition 1772 ), Hortus Keweensis ( 1768 ), Flora Britanica ( 1760 ), Herbarium Britannicum ( 1769 - 1770 ), Virtues of British Herbs ( 1770 ), Decade of Curious and Elegand Trees and Plants ( 1773 ), Twenty-five New Plants, rais'd in the Royal Garden of Kew ( 1773 ). Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin (1727-1817) lui dédie en 1760 le genre Hillia de la famille des Rubiaceae . Hill issued General Natural History (two volumes, 1748 - 1752 ), Useful Family Herbal ( 1754 ), Herbal British ( 1756 - 1757 ), Eden, Gold Compleat Body of Gardening ( 1757 ) Exotic Botany ( 1759 , second edition 1772 ) , Hortus Keweensis ( 1768 ), Flora Britannica ( 1760 ), Britannicum Herbarium ( 1769 - 1770 ), Virtues of British Herbs ( 1770 ), Decade of Curious and Elegand Trees and Plants ( 1773 ), Twenty-Five New Plants, rais'd in the Royal Garden of Kew ( 1773 ). Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin (1727-1817) dedicated to him in 1760 the kind Hillier of the family of Rubiaceae .