Adolph treidler biography

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ADOLPH TREIDLER (1886-1981) was one of the most influential illustrators and poster designers of the twentieth century, and a highly successful commercial artist whose work for the Bermuda Trade Development Board in the 1930s helped put that island on the map as a popular tourist destination. The noted American artist and architectural historian Andrew Zega called him “arguably the nation’s most outstanding poster artist,” and his illustrations appeared in or graced the covers of many of the nation’s most prominent magazines of the previous century, including McClure’s (where his work first appeared in 1908),Century, Scribner’s, The Saturday Evening Post, Collier’s, Woman’s Home Companion, and Harper’s. (By the time of his death in 1981, he had produced over 200 covers for the aforementioned periodicals.) Besides the Bermuda Trade Development Board and his work promoting the American government’s efforts during both Wo Adolph treidler watercolor.