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Outing, September Number

Name: Outing, September Number
Brand: The Links
SKU: PA-00028

American poster artist, 1896

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No print size passed the check for this piece: at 8 x 10 in, Wrong shape: a 26% crop. We would rather show it than sell a soft print.

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A poster for the September number of *Outing*, the American sporting monthly, with a golfer in flat art-nouveau colour. The moment the game becomes a magazine-cover proposition in America — aspirational, fashionable, and printed cheaply at scale. Almost no modelling and no shadow: this is designed for a hoarding, to be read at forty feet. Golf arrived in America as a lifestyle before it arrived as a sport.

Maker: American poster artist
Date: 1896
Medium of the original: Poster
Original held by: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs
Credit: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs
Rights: Cleared for print
Catalogue number: PA-00028

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Sizes withheld
Size	Why
8 x 10 in	Wrong shape: a 26% crop
8 x 12 in	Wrong shape: a 12% crop
11 x 14 in	Wrong shape: a 25% crop
12 x 16 in	Wrong shape: a 22% crop
12 x 18 in	Wrong shape: a 12% crop
16 x 20 in	Wrong shape: a 26% crop
16 x 24 in	Wrong shape: a 12% crop
18 x 24 in	Wrong shape: a 22% crop
20 x 30 in	Wrong shape: a 12% crop
24 x 30 in	Wrong shape: a 26% crop
24 x 36 in	Wrong shape: a 12% crop
30 x 40 in	Wrong shape: a 22% crop
36 x 48 in	Wrong shape: a 22% crop
40 x 60 in	Wrong shape: a 12% crop