Of course his career lasted longer, but his approach remained poster-like throughout, because it seems he illustrated many posters and magazine covers and few if any magazine stories.
The early works shown below are flat, simplified representations. Later, he gradually added modeling.
He was about 22 years old when he did this.
Fancher is perhaps best known for his Pierce-Arrow posters.
Collier's was a major general-interest magazine, ranking not far below the Saturday Evening Post.
Another poster-style cover illustration. In one sense, magazine covers are actually sales posters.
A Pierce-Arrow competitor.
Fancher was in the Army during the Great War, but still had time to do poster art.
Another patriotic wartime poster, this for a railroad. Note the German helmet at the lower right. Many had studs that could support an armor band over the front. Here Fancher transforms the studs into devil's horns.
Changing style, but still a poster.
Flatness is pretty well eliminated here. Not much like his earlier Pierce-Arrow work.
An example of his later style.
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