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Art Institute of Chicago

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Zodiac ("La Plume")

Alphonse Mucha, 1896-97

Ink drawing of a startled old man with umbrella, a charging cow, a dog and cyclists on a cobbled street.

La vache enragée

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1896

J.C. Boldoot Eau de Cologne: Parfumerie Amsterdam

Henri Privat-Livemont, c. 1899

Poster of a man reaching toward a large clock above a dark industrial skyline, with bold title lettering below.

Time Cooperative

Adolf Hohenstein, 1899

Lithograph poster of a man in a black cloak and wide-brimmed hat seen from behind, with orange advertising text on the right.

Aristide Bruant

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1893

Black linework print of women with swirling striped hair playing a harp, with terrified figures in the lower left corner.

Image Design for a Poster, Wagenaar's Cantata 'The Shipwreck'

Jan Toorop, 1899

Japanese woodblock playbill with four panels of kabuki actors, a boat scene, and a vendor, above calligraphic text.

A Poster for the Ichimura Theatre (Ichimuraza tsuji banzuke)

Torii Kiyomasu II, c. 1715

Color lithograph poster with a reclining woman, a dog, a girl, and a man with a box, advertising L'Artisan Moderne.

L'Artisan Moderne

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1896

Lithograph of a thin man in a top hat pasting a bill on a city wall, with a wicker basket at his side and cobblestones below.

The Poster Man, plate 17 from Bohémiens de Paris

Honoré Daumier, 1842

Wartime poster of two soldiers with a rifle and sword protecting a woman before flames, reading Halt the Hun, buy bonds.

Halt the Hun! Buy U.S. Government Bonds Third Liberty Loan

Henry Patrick Raleigh, 1918

Poster of cyclists on a yellow track with spectators and motorcycle pacers, titled La Chaîne Simpson, with red lettering.

The Simpson Chain

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1896

Color poster of allied flags rising behind a helmeted figure in a smoky sky, captioned L'Emprunt de la Libération.

The Liberation Loan

Abel Faivre, 1918-20

Wartime poster of a mother holding an infant, looking toward shadowy helmeted soldiers, with text urging purchase of Liberty

Hun or Home?

Henry Patrick Raleigh, 1918

Aristide Bruant, in His Cabaret

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1893

Poster of three women in headscarves pulling a plow across a rocky field, with the text Save Wheat and Will You Help the Wome

Will You Help the Women of France?

Edward Penfield, 1917

Lithograph poster of a bound prisoner beside a scaffold, guarded by soldiers and a priest, with the Le Matin masthead.

Au Pied de l'Echafaud

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1893

Blue-green poster of a white horse pulling a cart past a street lamp, with the masthead L'Aube revue illustrée at upper right

L'Aube

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1896

Poster of a woman in a white gown beside a rearing dark horse, with Théâtre Antoine La Gitane de Richepin lettering.

La Gitane

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1899