People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1893 — Decoration of a Bill Poster. [ARTICLE]

Decoration of a Bill Poster.

Years ago Wilkie Collins conceived that there would be great effectiveness in a fine bill poster, and when he produced his “Woman in White” as a play he prevailed upon Fred Walker, one of the leading water colorists of his day, to draw the picture for his posters. The block was cut, too, by one of the first engravers of his time, a man who rarely touched the graver himself. The picture was the talk of the kingdom. And now France, jealous of its art, most careful to exclude whatever may be meretricious, has decorated an artist for the work he has done on posters. Cheret has made France talk of posters as England once talked of Walker’s figure of the “Woman in White” that decorated the dead walls from one end of the land to the other. Cheret wears the ribbon of the Legion of Honor because he has made the art of posters pleasing and true.