Celebrate the life and work of British artist Aubrey Beardsley at this free exhibit on his 150th birthday. The show explores the meteoric rise of Beardsley (1872–1898), a monumental figure in book and magazine illustration, graphic arts and poster design, as well as the history of gender and sexuality.
During Beardsley’s brief career from 1892 to 1898, cut short by his death from tuberculosis, he was a brilliant innovator in the British Art Nouveau and Decadent movements, creating daring black-and-white images for periodicals and books. He was equally famous as the consummate “bad boy,” using his images to satirize Victorian norms of conduct and push gender and sexual boundaries. The exhibition highlights the rebellious and insouciant quality of his art and writing, celebrating the eternally young Beardsley.
See "Aubrey Beardsley, 150 Years Young" at The Grolier Club, America’s oldest and largest society for bibliophiles from September 8 through November 12.
