Western Lawn Tennis 1896 | Edward Penfield Sport Poster

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A woman in an elegant white dress and straw boater hat stands poised with her tennis racquet, the Kenwood Country Club's distinctive architecture rising behind her in shades of orange and terracotta. Tennis players move across the court in the background, rendered in the simplified forms that defined American poster art in the 1890s.

Designed by Edward Penfield in 1896 for the Western Lawn Tennis Tournament at Chicago's Kenwood Country Club. Penfield, considered the father of the American poster movement, created this work during his tenure as art director at Harper's Magazine. The design depicts the leisure culture of America's emerging middle class, when tennis was establishing itself as a fashionable pursuit at exclusive clubs.

This poster represents one of the earliest examples of American sports advertising. Penfield's composition balances architectural detail with figure study, using his characteristic bold outlines and flat colour areas that drew from Japanese ukiyo-e influences while remaining distinctly American.

Reproduced as an archival print on 200gsm Enhanced Matte Fine Art Paper using museum-quality pigment inks. The restoration preserves the graphic clarity that made Penfield's work effective advertising from across a street.

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