Art of the Draw: Advertising Posters
from the McCormick-International Harvester Collection
LOCATION POSTER
Parlor Decoration
ome printed advertisements served
as decorative art in people's homes. This calendar for
Osborne implements recalls "The Barefoot Boy," a
popular print based on a John Greenleaf Whittier poem. "The Barefoot Boy" remained in print for at least
thirty years and spawned a whole sub-genre of prints
portraying romanticized scenes of rural childhood in
America.
![Osborne Farm Machines and Implements poster with 1913 calendar.](images/Mcref13-l.jpg)
Color Lithograph, 1913
Unknown Printer
for International
Harvester Co.
(Chicago)
22" x 13.5"
WHI 4287