Little Magazines And/As New Media SPRING 2020 Dashboard
Description
This COVE group is comprised of a graduate students from Ryerson University and York University in Toronto, Canada, taking CC8987 with Dr. Lorraine Janzen Kooistra. This course is a Spring 2020 elective in the Technology in Practice stream within the interdisciplinary Communication and Culture Program.
Galleries, Timelines, and Maps
This gallery shows something of the range of art featured in the little magazines of the fin de siècle. The most famous magazine art was Aubrey Beardsley's pen-and-ink work, which he designed specifically for reproduction by line-block engraving, a photomechanical process. These art-nouveau designs, featuring the bold use of line and negative/positive space, gave their signature to the period, along with the posters and commercial art that they inspired and were inspired by. Some magazine artwork took the form of limited edition original prints--that is, etchings, lithographs, and wood engravings designed and produced by manual means over which the artist had control. Most, but by no means all, of these were reproduced in black and white. Some magazine artwork was reproduced in halftone (grayscale) using photomechanical processes to resize and recolour large original paintings. The principal reproductions firms serving little magazines include C. Hare, Hentschel, Naumann, Swan,... more
This map of contributors to fin-de-siècle little magazines shows the regional, national, and international reach of the people who produced their content and brought it to readers.
This timeline places little magazines within a chronology of technological innovation in media, spanning from print to digital culture.
Individual Entries
Ethel Reed (1874-1912) was an American artist and model born in Newburyport, Massachusetts. Her father died when she was young, and she grew up in poverty with her mother. Reed developed her talent as an artist early in life, was a protégé of Laura C. Hills (Peterson 2013) and was educated at the Cowles Art School. She was most active during the 1890s, where she became famous within the Americas and Europe for her Art Nouveau illustrations which appeared in various books and magazines including The Yellow Book (Vol. 12), Fairy Tales by Mabel F. Blodgett, and Behind the Arras by Bliss Carman. Her work was noted for bold, curved lines, and...
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Pamela Colman Smith is most known for her Rider-Waite tarot deck illustrations. However, she should also be acknowledged as a very talented writer, artist, and businesswoman. Smith was born in 1878 in London, England. In 1889 she moved to Kingston, Jamaica with her family. The culture of the West Indies inspired some of her future books such as, Chim-Chim published in 1905. Smith attended the Pratt Institute of Art and Design in New York from 1893 to 1897. However, she did not obtain a degree. The same year that she left Pratt, Macbeth’s New York gallery held her first art show. Smith moved back to London, England in 1899. While in London she met and collaborated with a number of other artists and writers such as Jack Yeats, W.B. Yeats, and George Moore. In 1903, Smith began the publication of her own Little Magazine, The Green...
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Pamela Colman Smith is most known for her Rider-Waite tarot deck illustrations. However, she should also be acknowledged as a very talented writer, artist, and businesswoman. Smith was born in 1878 in London, England. In 1889 she moved to Kingston, Jamaica with her family. The culture of the West Indies inspired some of her future books such as, Chim-Chim published in 1905. Smith attended the Pratt Institute of Art and Design in New York from 1893 to 1897. However, she did not obtain a degree. The same year that she left Pratt, Macbeth’s New York gallery held her first art show. Smith moved back to London, England in 1899. While in London she met and collaborated with a number of other artists and writers such as Jack Yeats, W.B. Yeats, and George Moore. In 1903, Smith began the publication of her own Little Magazine, The Green Sheaf...
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Pamela Colman Smith is most known for her Rider-Waite tarot deck illustrations. However, she should also be acknowledged as a very talented writer, artist, and businesswoman. Smith was born in 1878 in London, England. In 1889 she moved to Kingston, Jamaica with her family. The culture of the West Indies inspired some of her future books such as, Chim-Chim published in 1905. Smith attended the Pratt Institute of Art and Design in New York from 1893 to 1897. However, she did not obtain a degree. The same year that she left Pratt, Macbeth’s New York gallery held her first art show. Smith moved back to London, England in 1899. While in London she met and collaborated with a number of other artists and writers such as Jack Yeats, W.B. Yeats, and George Moore. In 1903, Smith began the publication of her own Little Magazine, The Green...
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Pamela Colman Smith is most known for her Rider-Waite tarot deck illustrations. However, she should also be acknowledged as a very talented writer, artist, and businesswoman. Smith was born in 1878 in London, England. In 1889 she moved to Kingston, Jamaica with her family. The culture of the West Indies inspired some of her future books such as, Chim-Chim published in 1905. Smith attended the Pratt Institute of Art and Design in New York from 1893 to 1897. However, she did not obtain a degree. The same year that she left Pratt, Macbeth’s New York gallery held her first art show. Smith moved back to London, England in 1899. While in London she met and collaborated with a number of other artists and writers such as Jack Yeats, W.B. Yeats, and George Moore. In 1903, Smith began the publication of her own Little Magazine, The Green...
moreElizabeth Adela Forbes (née Armstrong) was a Canadian artist born on 29 December 1859 in Kingston, Ontario. Initially, she received a private education at home, but later travelled to England with her mother to further her formal education at the South Kensington Art School. She continued her education by travelling to and studying at New York, Brittany, and the Netherlands. in the autumn of 1885, she established a studio in Newlyn, Cornwall. Armstrong met her husband, the artist Stanhope Forbes, whilst living in St. Ives and they married in 1889. She worked in oil, watercolour, pastels, and also made etchings that are believed to have been particularly...
moreElizabeth Adela Forbes (née Armstrong) was a Canadian artist born on 29 December 1859 in Kingston, Ontario. Initially, she received a private education at home, but later travelled to England with her mother to further her formal education at the South Kensington Art School. She continued her education by travelling to and studying at New York, Brittany, and the Netherlands. in the autumn of 1885, she established a studio in Newlyn, Cornwall. Armstrong met her husband, the artist Stanhope Forbes, whilst living in St. Ives and they married in 1889. She worked in oil, watercolour, pastels, and also made etchings that are believed to have been particularly...
moreElizabeth Adela Forbes (née Armstrong) was a Canadian artist born on 29 December 1859 in Kingston, Ontario. Initially, she received a private education at home, but later travelled to England with her mother to further her formal education at the South Kensington Art School. She continued her education by travelling to and studying at New York, Brittany, and the Netherlands. in the autumn of 1885, she established a studio in Newlyn, Cornwall. Armstrong met her husband, the artist Stanhope Forbes, whilst living in St. Ives and they married in 1889. She worked in oil, watercolour, pastels, and also made etchings that are believed to have been particularly...
moreElizabeth Adela Forbes (née Armstrong) was a Canadian artist born on 29 December 1859 in Kingston, Ontario. Initially, she received a private education at home, but later travelled to England with her mother to further her formal education at the South Kensington Art School. She continued her education by travelling to and studying at New York, Brittany, and the Netherlands. in the autumn of 1885, she established a studio in Newlyn, Cornwall. Armstrong met her husband, the artist Stanhope Forbes, whilst living in St. Ives and they married in 1889. She worked in oil, watercolour, pastels, and also made etchings that are believed to have been particularly...
moreElizabeth Adela Forbes (née Armstrong) was a Canadian artist born on 29 December 1859 in Kingston, Ontario. Initially, she received a private education at home, but later travelled to England with her mother to further her formal education at the South Kensington Art School. She continued her education by travelling to and studying at New York, Brittany, and the Netherlands. in the autumn of 1885, she established a studio in Newlyn, Cornwall. Armstrong met her husband, the artist Stanhope Forbes, whilst living in St. Ives and they married in 1889. She worked in oil, watercolour, pastels, and also made etchings that are believed to have been particularly...
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