Ride a Stearns and Be Content
1896 · Colour lithograph (poster) · The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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This print
About this work
- Artist
- Edward Penfield (1866–1925)
- Year
- 1896
- Medium
- Colour lithograph (poster)
- Original size
- 136.9 × 102.3 cm
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
- Movement
- Belle Époque
A young woman in a white shirtwaist, a straw boater and a plaid skirt rides a yellow Stearns bicycle across a grey ground, under the lettering "Ride a Stearns and be content". Penfield designed the poster in 1896 for the E. C. Stearns company of Syracuse, New York, makers of the Yellow Fellow bicycle, at the height of the American bicycle craze; the flat colour, the heavy outline and the confident girl are the American poster style he had invented for Harper's. Printed by J. Ottmann, New York. The impression reproduced belongs to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
This full-bleed edition prints the work edge to edge from a high-resolution scan of the original, very slightly cropped (a few percent at most) to fit the sheet. The gallery edition shows the whole work, uncropped. The original is in the public domain.
Where it works
A cyclist in white and plaid on a yellow bicycle, for a hallway, garage or home office at 12×16 or 18×24 in thin black, no mat. It suits a white or grey wall and pairs with Toulouse-Lautrec's La Chaîne Simpson.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Belle Époque painting
- Era
- 19th century (1896)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Mood
- decorative, sophisticated
- Rooms
- hallway or entryway, home office, living room, dining room
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
Size. We'd hang this one at 12×16. Prints at 12×16, 18×24 in — 12×16 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 18×24 above a desk, console or in a hallway.
Framing. Printed edge to edge: a slim black or dark wood frame right to the image, or let the canvas wrap do the framing. Also available gallery-wrapped on canvas, ready to hang with no frame.
Pairing. Pairs as a set of three with other famous painting prints (10% off three or more).
Details & materials
Shipping & returns
Is this the whole painting, or a crop?
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When was Ride a Stearns and Be Content painted, and in what medium?
What size works above a sofa or bed?
About this design
The Madten promise
An exhibition poster
The same artwork as a gallery exhibition poster — title, artist & date typeset beneath the image on a soft ground.
A fine-art print
The same artwork as a clean fine-art print — the image shown large with a minimal caption.
