There were a number of approaches to WW2 posters varying from the shocking to the jingoistic. Here Newbould uses his tried an tested block colour travel poster style to pull the heart strings. The Alfriston Fair poster sticks out with its use of perspective and movement at odds with the other static images
Send everything ahead in a British Railways Furniture Container and they’ll even knock a bit off the train fare to your new home. c.1936 poster with illustration by Frank Newbould. via Removals by rail — Leftover London
Subject of a 2012 Exhibition in Manchester referred here In Translation Hosted no doubt partially due to the far sighted nature of acquiring 222 examples in 1932. I missed the exhibition but am working on getting a look somehow. For me there are 2 genres of EMB posters Showcasing the product (I absolutely love the …
We are upping our Sales output with 15 new posters to be listed over the next few days. Artists featured include Purvis, Eckersley and Tomi Ungerer to add to items already listed from Newbould, Padden and Heniron. We will also have some unusual 1960s GPO posters, a couple from the Imperial War Museum and a …
More great posters coming many under £75 Changing all the time please keep looking ! Read More »
Emboldened to the positive response for my last Frank Newbould post, an as I am in Belgium, I offer you these two posters which contrast nicely his early and later work Frank Newbould (24 September 1887 – 1951) was an English poster artist, born in Bradford. Educated at Bradford College of Art and Camberwell School of Art, he worked mostly in London from the interwar period specialising …
Some of these pre war brochures are worth a second look. This one in particular by Frank Newboild provides a striking 8.5 inch square mini poster from the cover. Now for sale £12 Other items for sale
We have missed out quite a few classic poster artists from this blog and as I said the other day, Frank Newbould is one of them. His immediate pre war work stands up with the best. I remember this time last year I had a huge billboard version of this poster hanging in my stairwell, …
A couple of auctions yesterday and the action was fast and furious ! The poster lots at GW Railwayana were well spread out within the auction. There were a couple of French posters which i had not noticed before of which this was the pick As usual there isn’t much text to support the image. …
