Richard Fayerweather Babcock (1887-1954) - Mosinee Paper Company Advertising Poster AP1181

Designed by one of the giants of American advertising art for one of the giants of the paper industry (still in business today as part of the Wausau company). c 1930 Mounted on board. Measures 15 1/2" x 22 1/8". Illustrator, painter, muralist and educator Richard Fayerweather Babcock’s long career was notable for his illustrations for encyclopedias, advertising and World War I propaganda posters. Born in Denmark, Iowa in 1887, Babcock was educated at the Art Students League in New York City, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, two art schools in Munich, Germany and in Spain. While in Europe, Babcock focused on poster design. He began living in the Chicago suburb of Evanston, Ill., in 1913, and would live there for most of the rest of his life. He designed posters for the Navy Department during World War I, including a 1917 poster showing a sailor riding a torpedo. He joined the faculty of the Art Institute’s School in 1918 to teach poster design. He resigned in 1922 and may hav