Mountain Lovers parting – Original Art for Postcards – circa 1910

Several German (also Saxon, English, or Dutch) postcard companies commissioned original art for the enormous international postcard market.

The quality of the art and of the printing was often superior to occasional postcards or to postcard photographs of local landmarks.

A number of German artists (and one very successful American woman, Ellen Clapsaddle) had flourishing careers in this specialized niche.

I have not yet learned to identify most of the German artists by the tiny initials inscribed on their works.

This mountain scene, a sad farewell, possibly in Switzerland or the German alps, was printed for the international market sometime in the very early twentieth century.

The postcard was mailed from Columbia, PA to Miss Blanche Copeland who lived on Manor Street in that city.