141 Survey 5: Painters and posters (1850 - 1895)
1850-54 1877 c.1890-1915 The Douglas Trea es signed with First William Morris gave lectures on design Art nouveau period Na ons on Vancouver Island 1878 1891 1850 BC imposed a “breathing tax” Zippers invented California became the 31st state (U.S.) on Chinese immigrants 1891 1851 1878 Lautrec designed La Gouloue poster Herman Melville’s Eadweard Muybridge published his Moby Dick published photographic mo on studies 1891 1851 1879 William Morris founded Kelmsco press The Great Exhibi on opened London Thomas Edison invented electric lamp 1892 1852 c.1880-1910 American Type Founders Company established Dr. Livingston lost on Zambezi River Arts and Cra s period 1892 1852 1881-1885 Portable typewriter invented Singer sewing machine invented CPR built railway from Montreal to Vancouver 1892 1854 1881 Morris published U.S. Commodore Perry forced open The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye trade with Japan Frederic Ives commercializes Talbot’s hal one photomechanical process 1892 1854-c.1900 1882 Eugène Grasset designed covers for Japonisme trend Harpers Magazine The Century Guild formed 1856 1892 1883 Owen Jones’ Lautrec designed Reine de Joie poster The Grammar of Ornament published Arthur Mackmurdo designed bookcover for Wren’s City Churches 1893 1858 1883 Jules Cheret designed Gold rush started on the Fraser River Palais de Glaces poster Eugène Grasset designed 1859 Histoire des Quatre Fils 1893 Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of 1883 Aubrey Beardsley designed book cover Species published for Morris’s Le Morte D’Arthur Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1859 Treasure Island published 1893 First oil well drilled in Pennsylvania 1884 Coca-Cola trademark registered 1861 Art Worker’s guild founded 1893 4 year U.S. Civil War began 1884 William Morris designed Chaucer typeface 1861 London Underground opened 1893 William Morris founded decora ng firm 1884 Ford invented the first gasoline engine 1862 Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn published 1894 Thomas Nast joined Harper’s Weekly 1884 Linn Boyd Benton designed 1862 The Hobby Horse periodical published Century typeface Dutch ophthalmologist Herman Snellen 1885 1894 invents the eye chart Karl Benz built first automobile with Charles Ricke s designed bookcover for 1865 internal combus on engine Oscar Wilde’s The Sphinx Walter Crane illustrated 1885-1951 1894 his first children’s book BC First Na ons potlatch ban Aubrey Beardsley designed 1867 Salome poster c. 1885-1905 Canadian Confedera on 1894 Post-Impressionism Period 1868 Morris & Crane worked together on 1886 Bicycle mass-produc on The Story of the Gli ering Plain began in France Statue of Liberty completed 1894 1869 1887 Nicolas II crowned Czar of Russia The Suez Canal opened Tolbert Langston perfected 1894 the Monotype machine 1871 The Yellow Book launched in UK 1888 BC joined Confedera on 1894 Eastman Kodak box camera launched 1872 Louis Rhead designed covers for 1888 First Na ons and Chinese immigrants Harpers magazine lost the right to vote William Morris designed Golden typeface 1894 1872 1888 The Beggarstaffs agency was founded Claude Monet painted Charles Ashbee founded 1894 Impression Sunrise the Guild of Handicra s Jan Toorop designed salad oil poster c. 1870’s-1880’s 1889 1894 Impressionism Period The Eiffel Tower completed Alfons Mucha designed Gismonda poster 1876 1889 1894-97 BC Indian Act imposed Paris Exposi on Universelle opened Edward Penfield designed covers for 1876 1885 Harpers magazine Bell invented the telephone The world's first skyscraper completed 1895 Home Insurance Building, Chicago Elbert Hubbard sets up the Roycro community (U.S. Arts and Cra s) 1895
5 141 Survey 6: Dreams and designers (1895 - 1905)
1895 1898 1901
Frances Macdonald (The Four) designed Ver Sacrum secessionist magazine Marllo Dudovich designed Campari Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts poster launched in Vienna Advertisment (Dudovich & Hohenstein and the Italian pictorial tradition) 1895 1898 1902 Oscar Wilde was imprisoned for Peter Behrens carved “The Kiss” “gross indency” in Reading jail, UK Koloman Moser designed poster for the 1898 13th Vienna Secession exhibition 1895 Will Bradley designed 1902 The Lumière Brothers showed covers for His Book, U.S. their first moving pictures The teddy bear first appeared 1898 1895 1902 Henri Privet Livemont designed poster Frederic Goudy for Absinthe Robette Georges Claude invented neon light designed Camelot typeface 1898 1903 1896 Charles Gibson redefined the image of Wright Brothers first gas motored plane Théophile Steinlen designed women in the U.S. with the Gibson Girls 1903 Chat Noir poster 1899 Weiner Werkstatte founded 1896 Henri Van de Velde designed 1903 Morris published the Kelmscott Chaucer poster for Tropon foods UK Daily Mirror abandoned 1896 1899 illustration for photography Lucien & Esther Pissarro founded Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness 1903 The Eragny Press, France published (Apocalypse Now) Emmeline Pankhurst founded the 1895 Late 1880’s Women's Social and Political Union Will Bradley designed covers Mass produced furniture takes over 1905 for The Chap Book, U.S. 1899 Lucian Bernhard designed 1895 Sigmund Freud’s The Interpretation of Priester matches poster (Plakastil) Ethel Reed designed poster Dreams published 1905 for Arabella and Araminta stories 1900 Einstein published his theory of relativity 1895 Count Ferdinand Zeppelin 1905 William L. Carqueville designed covers launched the Zeppelin for Lippincott’s magazine “Bloody Sunday” led to 1900 the first Russian Revolution 1895 Behrens used sans-serif for body text Siegfried Bing’s art nouveau gallery 1900 opened in Paris Behrens designed Behrenschrift and 1896 Eckmannschrift typefaces Yukon gold rush began 1900 1896 Talwin Morris designed FLW published The House Beautiful The Book of the Home
1896 1901
Jugend magazine launched in Germany Queen Victoria died
1896 1901
Charles Ricketts founded Vale Press, UK Japanese-Canadian Tomekichi Homma refused the right to vote in BC election 1897 1901 The Vienna Secession formed Marconi sent the first 1897 transatlantic radio message
US General Electric established 1901 corporate identity department Nobel Prize was established 1898 1901 Alfons Mucha designed Job poster Paperclips and vacuum cleaners 1898 were invented Berthold type foundry, Berlin, launched Akzidenz Grotesque typeface
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