 | This set of four Women's Seasons paintings may have been the earliest Schmucker did for the Detroit Publishing Company and could have been a menu and a postcard design. This set may have been influenced by the well-known Art Nouveau artist Alphonse Mucha. Mucha first illustrated a set of menu/postcard designs in 1899. The border designates an open space for writing. On March 1, 1907, Congress followed the lead of European nations and permitted postcards to be divided down the back. Prior to that, the message had to be written on the front, and only the address could be written on the back. Many early postcard artists designed an open space on the front of their cards for writing the message. Schmucker used gold ink to paint the art nouveau style border on these paintings, and he utilized a white line around the woman's face and border for accent. He uses a flower in the women's hair to symbolize different seasons. |
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