Title:

The Seven Arts

Publication Dates:

Volumes 1-2, November 1916- October 1917 (Absorbed by The Dial in 1917)

Circulation:

Monthly

Place of Publication:

New York

Format:

Approximately twelve to twenty works per issue. Beginning in April 1917 "The Seven Arts Chronicle" was printed with every issue. The magazine embodied a simple, scholarly aesthetic comprised of a table of contents followed immediately by criticism, poems, short plays, essays, brief editorials, and stories. The first issue contained 95 well printed pages but was somewhat smaller than the later average of 125 book-size leaves. During the magazine's one year of publication its production was geared toward an average of 5,000 buyers.

Editor:

James Oppenheim (1882-1932).

Associate editors: Waldo Frank and Van Wyck Brooks

Advisory Board: Louis Untermeyer, Robert Frost, David Mannes, and Robert Edmond Jones

Publisher:

The Seven Arts

compiled by Ruthie S. Hill (Davidson College, class of 2007)