He is considered the father of the American poster, and was dominant in the era known as the "Golden Age of American Illustration". His work has been included in almost every major book on American Illustration or the history of the poster.
Penfield was particularly interested in early coaches and other horse-drawn vehicles and often used them as picture themes. He could draw upon his own collection of stage coaches- a one-horse shay and other vehicles, along with saddles and harness which occupied his “museum” on the ground floor under his studio.
https://www.societyillustrators.org/edward-penfield
Not a boisterous self-promoter like some of his contemporaries — he rarely gave personal interviews — Penfield preferred to live a quiet life near his ancestral stomping grounds in New York. But at the same time he was considered “that rare person among artists, an active citizen.” He volunteered for civic duties, spoke at womens’ clubs, taught at the Art Students’s League and served as president of the Society of Illustrators.
In later life, Penfield lived in Pelham Manor, a Westchester suburb about three miles east of the Bronx Zoo, where he played a large role in eradicating the mosquito infestation in the marshland along Long Island Sound – as if to draw one final line across buzzing distractions that cause so much ill-will and illness in the urban environment.
I like this policeman doing traffic control, on horseback.
http://www.rennertsgallery.com/2016/10/26/the-very-quiet-complications-of-edward-penfield/
https://www.art.com/gallery/id--a10464/edward-penfield-posters.htm?page=6&pathNumber=0
https://edwardpenfield.com/biography/
https://www.artsy.net/artist/edward-penfield
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2018/american-art-n09844/lot.50.html
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