Sunday, December 30, 2018

Leonard Cline's Bookplate

Leonard Cline's bookplate is reproduced at right.  According to Cline's daughter, it was designed by Arthur Marschner while both he and Cline worked at the Detroit News. Evidently only a small number of bookplates were made at the time, and examples survive in less than ten volumes owned by Cline, all published between 1918 and 1921.


Arthur A. Marschner (1884-1950) was, in his lifetime, a well-known Detroit artist and illustrator.  He published three illustrations in 1921 in The Liberator, a socialist magazine in which Cline published six poems in 1918 through 1921.


Here are the three pieces of Marschner's art (probably linoleum or wood cuts):



March 1921

March 1921
September 1921 

And here is Cline's poem, "Vision," from July 1921.

I found some other Marschner artwork on the web, and here are a few oil paintings.

Still with Fruit and Copper Pot

Two Landscapes