The distinctive typography and elegant forms designed by William Joseph "Dard" Hunter (American, 1883?1966) have become icons of the American Arts and Crafts style and have established him as one of America's most influential graphic artists of the twentieth century. Under the mentorship of Roycroft leader Elbert Hubbard, Hunter forged his own design path, one that initially found its inspiration in William Morris's Kelmscott Press but quickly shifted to modeling contemporary European design trends. He immersed himself in the creative output of Austrian and German Secession artists, and the products of the Vienna Workshop. Dard Hunter: The Graphic Works features more than eighty of his designs for book covers and title pages, booklets, bookplates, brochures, stationery, and stained glass windows. Accompanied with historical photographs and examples from Hunter's design contemporaries, author Lawrence Kreisman's illuminating text establishes Hunter as a unique voice that emerged from a multitude of extraordinary influences in an incomparable era of flourishing artistic achievement.
