The Daily Valdemar No. 60: May 12
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| Valdemar Andersen, cover for music sheets, ca. 1910.
Shown with permission from The Centre for Maps, Prints and Photographs, The Royal Library.
I apologize for the poor quality of the photo; it was taken by me for study purposes.
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Among the first commercial work Valdemar Andersen did were covers for music sheets. They are meant to convey an atmosphere or a story to take on when playing the music within with every reason to hurry and buy the booklets or sheets immediately to become part of it.
In the present case we shall be overwhelmed of the flowers bursting out our way or they may be taking us to the flower fields of memory when summers were never-ending. The bursting top sheet is promising us that this is but one of many and the daily Politiken got everything they asked their cartoonist for to incite their readers into buying their merchandise as it were.
The lettering is flourishing too, but nothing is overdone. The main feature of the picture plane is its weightlessness. There is no shadowing and just one dash of colour. The rest is our imagination.
