Fran wohlfelder biography

Form and function, art and business, come together in a converted potato barn in Bridgehampton where a leading publisher of art posters has its hideaway warehouse.

From there, Steve and Judy Romm create the everyman's version of artworks that could otherwise be unattainable.

While exposure is the obvious commercial benefit for artists who allow their work to be published as posters, with royalties a bit farther down the road, Mr.

and Mrs. Romm are quick to assert that posters are art too.

And theirs, they say, are among the best, winning awards nearly every year at the annual exhibit of the Association of the Graphic Arts, both for production quality and design.

Poster Pioneers

Toulouse-Lautrec and Alphonse Mucha were among the pioneers of poster art.

Lautrec's dance-hall girls and Mucha's turn-of-the-century actresses made the artists known to thousands who might never have heard of them otherwise.

"If 400 people go to an opening,