This cover design for the July 1896 issue of Harper’s magazine is especially representative of Edward Penfield’s groundbreaking graphic style. In it, the minimal typography is seamlessly integrated with the image of a single figure silhouetted against a plain yellow ground. Penfield was less influenced than his contemporary Will Bradley by the serpentine lines of the Art Nouveau; rather, as this poster suggests, his main sources of inspiration appear to have been Japanese color woodblock prints (ukiyo-e), and the posters of the French masters Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Jules Chéret, shown in New York in 1890 at the Grolier Club in its Exposition des Affiches, the first major exhibition of French posters in the United States.