#travel posters
Pullman / Vacation Lands Are Calling. 1936. William P. Welsh.
20 ¾ x 27 3/8 in./52.8 x 69.4 cm
She stands on the top of the world, painting on a mountaintop as the seagulls wave in semaphore. “Vacation lands are calling.”
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La Plage de Calvi. Corse. 1928. Roger Broders.
31 1/8 x 42 3/8 in./79 x 107.5 cm
A rapturously beautiful, supreme Deco celebration of Corsica, the Mediterranean, and the idylls of beach life from the travel-poster master. The colors are impossibly crisp, especially considering this Grande Dame of posterdom is now 90 years of age. This is actually an advertisement for the PLM railway; the line not only advertised destinations in southern Europe, but also points across the water accessible from those ports. This is the French-language version.
Available at auction February 25, 2018.
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Fly TWA Jets / Paris. 1962. David Klein.
24 7/8 x 40 ¼ in./63.2 x 102.4 cm
One of David Klein’s most celebrated posters. In this exultation of the City of Light, Klein’s stylized fireworks mimic the illustrated showgirls of the Folies-Bèrgere in posters of the period.
Available at auction February 25, 2018.
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I recently did a series of travel posters centered around the motherland, Vietnam. I have them up for sale too for anyone who interested in grabbing a print: https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/thetiffopotamus/
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Happy Thursday! This weekend, September 22-23, I’ll be at the Artbreakers Illustration Market in Vancouver, at the Main Street Heritage Hall.
I’ll have prints of the National Parks illustrations (Pacific RimandCape Breton), as well as copies of all the Delilah Dirk books as well as the usual familiar Delilah Dirk prints – all of which are conveniently sized to fit within affordable IKEA picture frames.
Come say Hi!
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Lord of the Rings Travel Posters - Created by Don Wilde
Prints available for sale at the artist’s Etsy shop.
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The Cornish Coast in The Sign of the Ram(1948)
Shot at Lizard Point, Cornwall, England (+ some compositing of the house and lighthouse)
In the establishing shots at the start of the film, Sherida Binyon’s (Phyllis Thaxter) arrival by train to “The Cornish Riviera” is suggested by shots of a fictional rail station called Tremerrion. This sequence includes a real Great Western Railway poster painted by Frank Newbould, which was used to advertise the route from London’s Paddington station to Cornwall. The poster was apparently in use from 1923-1947. Amazingly, this sequence does not have a single shot of a train!
I appreciate the cheekiness of introducing the film’s setting with an idyllic painting of a quaint fishing village shielded by cliffs when that is so far from what The Sign of the Ramdepicts.
Here’s the poster in color:
This particular poster isn’t included on the National Railway Museum’s website, but there are a lot of other wonderful posters featured in their online collection.
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everybody hop in we’re going to Malkier… but make it happy Malkier! stop 4 on the wot world tour
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