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Weimer Pursell
Graphics : Born in the USA
I am lucky enough to be in Houston Texas for the week !!! Its slowly recovering from the floods , will report back once I have spent more than an hour here Looking through the 3 years of the blog (and a lot of auction catalogues) I have only touched the surface of what is …
Chicago Fair Revisited
I have wondered in this blog about the lack of classic American poster art from the 1930s. I keep coming back to these wonderful Worlds Fair posters. Absolutely fantastic ! We have already looked at Weimer Pursell before in the blog, what did he do apart from these mega posters ? How about this for …
Exhibition time : Chicago Worlds fair
So far we have not featured Exhibition posters : a fine source for graphic art. No event could be bigger (unless a Universe Fair exists) than the Worlds Fair. These were American based fairs particularly popular through the years of the Great Depression. Yet again my boundaries are expanded, here is a Genuine American Deco …