What's new? This website is new!
Many thanks to those of you faithful out there who have kept checking back for progress on the development of the current website. Since the opening of Jack Wood Gallery at 2039 Madison Road in the village of O'Bryonville in Cincinnati in October 1998, I have been gratefully busy and occupied running the gallery and meeting a lot of great new customers. The website presence was for the past eighteen months not much more than a stop sign alerting you to the fact that there is a brick and mortar location for vintage posters here in the Queen City. I hope it now will open up several new relationships in the cyberworld and that you especially find it fun, useful, and informative.
I will try to keep it fresh and interesting with brief yet worthwhile text on what is going on at Jack Wood Gallery and what new posters and graphics we have and why we think they are significant. I will do my best to answer all emails as promptly as possible and encourage everyone to contact me that way. I look forward to many mutually rewarding exchanges.
In addition to the representative posters included on the site we also maintain a large inventory of what we like to refer to as period graphics. These are mainly collectible pieces such as Les Maitres de L'Affiche and Ricordi and Von Sponsel plates. We also have available in matted format some of the wonderful images from the Ault & Wiborg Poster Album and Arts et Metiers Graphique. These pieces were done with exacting quality and attention to detail and share many of the same attributes as their full size counterparts. We have just obtained a number of issues of Cri de Paris from turn of the century Paris which feature the works of Cappiello in both cover designs and back page small poster advertisements. We also have acquired a number of Cocorico covers and full issues from the same period with works by Mucha, Steinlen, Cheret, Helleu, DeFeure and others. These magazines are rich in content. The Cocoricos are full of advertisements for posters just published and for sale.
We have also recently acquired seven posters by the German master Ludwig Hohlwein. We have long carried the color plates from the 1926 Frenzel book as small examples of his work. We are very happy to have 5 pieces in the 34-1/2" by 47" format (Tobler Chocolate, Odeon Casino, Summer in Germany, Jacobiner, and Der Grosse Chef) as well as 2 pieces in the smaller 23" by 33" format (Alles Trinkt -- Teutonenbrau & Hofer Lowen-Brau-Bock). All of these are in excellent condition and on new linen.
Finally, we have two small pieces featuring the work of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. One is the cover from Chansonniers de Montmartre featuring the famous image of Aristide Bruant looking over his shoulder with his red scarf adorning his black cape. The other piece was originally included in the same publication and is the Ambassadeurs poster of Aristide again but this time facing you and the dans son cabaret text at the bottom. Both of these are approximately 10-1/2" by 14", in excellent condition and on new linen.
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