Adolph Treidler
{{Short description|American illustrator}}
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| birth_date = 1886
| birth_place = Westcliffe, Colorado, United States
| death_date = 1981
| death_place = Flemington, New Jersey, United States
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| field = Illustrator and painter, known for posters
| training = California School of Design,
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Adolph Treidler (1886–1981) was an American artist known for his illustrations, posters, commercial art, and wartime propaganda posters. His magazine covers and advertisement work appeared in McClure's, Harper's, the Saturday Evening Post, Collier's, Century, Scribner's, and the Woman's Home Companion. He created ads for the Pierce Arrow automobile and for the French Line. His 1930s advertising work for the Bermuda Board of Trade was instrumental in promoting tourism in Bermuda.{{Cite web |title=Adolph Treidler |url=http://www.americanartarchives.com/treidler,a.htm |access-date=2013-09-11 |work=American Art Archives}} He was president of the Artist's Guild from 1936–1937.{{Cite web |title=Contributors: Adolph Treidler |url=http://www.drleslie.com/Contributors/treidler.shtml |access-date=2013-09-11}}
Biography
Adolph Treidler was born in 1886 in Westcliffe, Colorado. He attended the California School of Design (now San Francisco Art Institute) in San Francisco from 1902 to 1904; followed by study of painting and drawing at the Henri School of Art in New York City (under Robert Henri) in 1909.
His wartime propaganda posters in World War I portrayed women workers in munitions plants for the United War Work Campaign.
He also created wartime propaganda posters in World War II. He was Chairman of the Pictorial Publicity Committee for the Society of Illustrators, and " produced at least five posters touting Women Ordnance Workers, otherwise known as WOW’s."{{Cite web
| title = She's a WOW
| work = The Rockwell Center for American Visual Studies
| date = 30 June 2011
| access-date = 2013-09-11
| url = http://www.rockwell-center.org/exploring-illustration/shes-a-wow/
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"Treidler was a member of the Art Directors’ Club, The Society of Illustrators, Charter Member of the Artists’ Guild, and life member of the Society of Illustrators. He exhibited at the Whitney Museum in New York in 1923 and The Art Institute of Chicago in 1930."{{Cite web
|title=Adolph Treidler Vintage Travel Poster
|work=Nicholas Lusher Fine Art & Antiques
|access-date=2013-09-13
|url=http://www.nicholaslusher.com/all-works/vintage-posters/bermuda-by-treidler-adolph-2/
|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130913044217/http://www.nicholaslusher.com/all-works/vintage-posters/bermuda-by-treidler-adolph-2/
|url-status=dead
|archive-date=2013-09-13
}}
Sometime between 1920 and 1925, Adolph joined 241 other bohemians in signing The Greenwich Village Bookshop Door. The door is now held by the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin, and Treidler's signature can be found on front panel 2.
Gallery
File:"WHAT YOU MAKE CAN PREVENT THIS" - NARA - 516135.jpg|
File:"Nassau in the Bahamas" - NARA - 515045.jpg|
File:Soldiers Without Guns - NARA - 513671.jpg|
File:"Guard the Supply Lines" - NARA - 514428.jpg|
File:"Our Flags. Beat Germany. Support every flag that opposes Prussianism. Eat less of the food Fighters need, Deny... - NARA - 512685.jpg|
File:"Care is Costly Buy & Hold War Bonds" - NARA - 514030.jpg|
References
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External links
{{Commons category|Adolph Treidler}}
- [https://www.loc.gov/pictures/related/?fi=name&q=Treidler%2C%20Adolph Adolph Treidler works at Library of Congress]
- [http://www.artchive.com/web_gallery/A/Adolph-Treidler/For-Every-Fighter-a-Woman-Worker,-1st-World-War-YWCA-propaganda-poster.html For Every Fighter a Woman Worker, 1st World War YWCA propaganda poster]
- [https://archive.today/20130913044142/http://www.encore-editions.com/the-combination-that-will-win-the-war-adolph-treidler--2 The combination that will win the war], poster
- [https://archive.today/20130913044217/http://www.nicholaslusher.com/all-works/vintage-posters/bermuda-by-treidler-adolph-2/ Adolph Treidler poster of a bicyclist in Bermuda]
- [http://docsouth.unc.edu/wwi/41964/50.html Have you bought your bond? Liberty Loan]
- [http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/rbpe.1000600a Robert Treat directing landing of founders of Newark], Adolph Treidler poster
{{Society of Illustrators' Hall of Fame}}
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Category:People from Custer County, Colorado
Category:San Francisco Art Institute alumni
Category:American illustrators
Category:American poster artists
Category:20th-century American painters