Gallery Edition – Queen City Ink, Ad. 09 by Augustus Jansson – 44×58 Interior Architectural Study

Curatorial Narrative Augustus Jansson’s “Queen City Ink, Ad. 09” occupies a pivotal moment in the trajectory of early 20th-century art, situated between the ornate flourishes of Art Nouveau and the austere minimalism of Modernism. Executed between 1890 and 1913, this work embodies the nascent spirit of Art Deco, its linear brushstrokes and figurative subject matter evoking a sense of luxurious modernity. The palette, characterized by bold reds, dramatic blacks, and piercing blues, set against a backdrop of crisp whites, injects a sense of dynamism into the composition, while Jansson’s masterful manipulation of chromatic structure imbues the work with an unmistakable atmospheric weight.When scaled to 44×58, “Queen City Ink, Ad. 09” assumes a monumental presence, its spatial rhythm and compositional structure orchestrating a symphony of visual tensions that reverberate throughout the surrounding environment. The palette, now amplified