P.W. NAHL PANAMA PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION-SAN FRANCISCO 1915 POSTER

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P.W. NAHL PANAMA PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION-SAN FRANCISCO 1915 POSTER:
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PANAMA PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION-SAN FRANCISCO 1915 POSTER. MEASURES ABOUT 23-3/4\"X17\", IT DOES HAVE \"FOXING\" BUT NO RIPS/TEARS. I DO NOT KNOW IF IT WAS MADE IN OR AROUND 1915??? **RARE** COLLECTIBLE.
THIS POSTER IS BY PERHAM W. NAHL...Perham Nahl\'s prize-winning poster for the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition. Millions of men, women and children admired this heroic image, which appeared on the maps, book covers and catalogues of the exposition, advertised worldwide. The mythological Hercules is depicted, symbolically standing in for the builders of the Panama Canal, at the point at which they willed their way through the canal\'s colossal Culebra Cut. A steamship passes through below; a modern city skyline graces the horizon. Perham Nahl won many awards during his lifetime and taught art technique and anatomy for decades at the Univ. of California and at the California College for Arts and Crafts, the latter of which he co-founded.

Perham was employed as a lithographer at H. S. Crocker & Co. when in 1894 he married Nanette (“Nan”) Woods in Berkeley; the couple continued to live in Alameda. In the mid-1890s he staged before large public audiences several risqué tableau vivants where naked models of both sexes were covered only with a thin layer of bronze pigment. His arrest and trial in New York City, where William Merritt Chase appeared in his defense, and subsequent scandals at home ended his theatre career. Between 1899 and 1901 he was a staff illustrator at the San Francisco Examiner. He also became a composer of popular music and served on the committee of the Alameda Coral Society. After divorcing his wife in 1902 he opened a studio in San Francisco and established his residence there, near the home of the Nahls’ family friend, Frederick Meyer.

Perham attended the Mark Hopkins Institute from 1899 to 1905 and studied under Charles C. Judson, Arthur Frank Mathews, John Stanton, Alice Chittenden, and Frederick Meyer. He won school prizes in life class, portrait drawing, composition, design, poster art, and painting, as well as a scholarship and a teaching certificate at graduation.[1] [10] From February until May 1906 he taught at U.C. Berkeley as the Instructor of Pen and Ink Drawing in the architecture department but felt he needed to learn more, so he set off to Europe to study anatomy at the Akademie Heyman in Munich, Germany.[2]

On his return in 1907, he became one of the founding members of the School of the California Guild of Arts and Crafts in Berkeley, today’s California College of the Arts[10][11] Initially, Perham taught drawing, antique classes, and watercolor, and later added life classes for men and women, oil painting, and composition. He maintained an active teaching schedule until his death. In May 1908 he married his second wife, the Berkeley socialite and musician, June Connor. He played a prominent role in the formation of the Berkeley Art Association in 1907 and the Berkeley League of Fine Arts in 1923. In 1912 Perham began a parallel career teaching in the art department of U.C. Berkeley, where he attained the rank of professor in 1929. His frequent travels to Mexico and his study of its modern muralists influenced his own art. He was partly responsible for bringing an exhibition of drawings by Diego Rivera to U.C. Berkeley in 1926.[12] Perham also became a leading authority on Japanese painting and was appointed curator of the massive Armes collection of oriental art at U.C. Berkeley.

He died on April 9, 1935 in San Francisco, from injuries sustained when he was hit by a car.