Back from the dog show, didn’t get a rosette so feeling a bit ruff! So many dog names there yesterday. Ours is Finlay by the way ( or is it BTW?) What’s in a name? British poster artists seem to be either Tom Frank or Harry. Harry Stevens brings a delightfully simple cartoon like quality to …
Lets get it out there : I love and I mean love Rugby League and in particular the Challenge Cup final Its an issue that divides the nation like perhaps no other. 80% of the sporting nation has no interest, the other 20% does …. a lot. Selling this northern sport to the London public …
Yes, torn missing and pasted, the perfect way to describe how I feel after last night’s trip out! Anyway as promised : a guide to poster condition Torn The majority of vintage posters are printed on relatively thin paper so prone to tearing. This is almost expected. Clean tears can be put back together with …
Am posting this by mobile whilst walking to the pub The perils of promising a post each day Thought it might be interesting to look at values so far Brorders £6000 Purvis £4000 Rosinvinge £3000 Boucher £1000 Freedman £1000 Klein £400 Jones £400 Lemmel £200 Will have to quit (before my battery) and revisit later. …
Having said previously that pure product advertising posters are perhaps not as popular as travel for example, there are some interesting French items from the immediate post war period. Charles Lemmel adopted an American style in line with the Hollywood stereotypes of the day, this was somewhat at odds with his French contemporaries His young …
Got to thinking about all the types of poster out there : this list could take some time ……. Advertising Airline Band Coach Car Drinks Deco Exhibition Film Football Festival Holiday Home Front International Movie Music Nature Racing Railway Savings Ship Show Transport Travel Underground Vacation War Still looking for a JKLOPQXYZ
Roger Broders had a pretty good job, one imagines; paid by the Paris Lyon Mediteranée rail company to travel from the glamorous resorts of the French Riviera to the ski resorts of the Alps, painting the landscapes and holiday-goers into vibrant travel posters. The Parisian-born illustrator captured the luxury and excitement of travel as we …
Something was in the water when these ‘classical’ British railway posters were produced. William H Barribal had obviously never been to the Yorkshire coast, surely he was getting confused with classical Venice Was Alfred Lambert getting confused between Tyneside and Florence ? Alfred Lambert (1902-1970), studied art at the Allan-Frazer Art College in Arbroathy, must …
Just returned from a camping expedition to Robin Hoods Bay so thought I would see if it featured and was amazed to find at least 4 railway posters for this small what can only be called village just south of Whitby. As usual we have two very different takes on the same subject. The first …
