Wednesday, February 1, 2023

WHAT ARE ARTIST-SIGNED POSTCARDS?

                                                        

 

 Artist-signed postcards are “cards where the original artwork was signed and this signature was carried over into the printing process. Occasionally, the artwork was signed only to have the entire picture cropped and the signature completely or partially lost in the resulting printed postcard. If an artist has a particularly easy style to recognize the work does not need to be signed to be collectible. […] Many very capable postcards artists remain anonymous.” 


 This postcard is by artist Thorolf Holmboe, whose initials appear in the lower left corner.


Source: The Encyclopedia of Antique Postcards. By Susan Brown Nicholson. PA: Wallace-Homestead Book Co., 1994, p. 9.

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