Scribner’s for September. John Edwin Jackson (American, 1876-1950). Poster.
Ah, autumn. Not too hot and not too cool. The ideal time for a canoe ride down a lazy river with a significant other with nary a distraction save canopying trees and the occasional water lily. Stylistically speaking, Jackson’s artwork almost seems like a combination of Parrish and Penfield, a melding of the allegorical and the societal. However, had either of those artists been in on the design there most surely would have been a copy of Scribner’s present, which isn’t the case here. That doesn’t make it any less lovely though.