Very sad to hear that #MiltonGlaser has died at 91. He made over 400 posters, including the iconic image of Bob Dylan in 1967: "Nearly six million posters made their way into homes across the world....[it] became one of the visual signatures of the era." https://t.co/Q7lsbVrmCC
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La Figlia di Iorio by Adolfo de Carolis (1906 ca.) https://t.co/0lnHIwUzv7
This is a stunning 10ft poster for an opera in 3 acts. The libretto corresponded to D'Annunzio's 1904 play about a witch in Abruzzo who is hunted by locals. Her lover tries to help her escape to no avail.
The Green Tree Library by Henry McCarter (1894) https://t.co/4IgYKFQ9PT
This elegant poster promoting a book publisher’s catalog was unusual among early American posters, created in a delicate flat style that emulated Japanese woodblock prints.
In our last newsletter, we took a close look at posters from a single year: 1920.
How do they reflect the world in which they were created, following the epic upheavals of #WWI, the #SpanishFlu and the #BolshevikRevolution?
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Zurich Kunstlerhaus by Fritz Boscovitz (1905): https://t.co/h5mqPHR35U
This classically rich and elegant poster for a lecture series at the Zurich Art Museum was designed by Fritz Boscovitz, an early Swiss designer and caricaturist who was trained in Zurich and Munich.
🚀In August 1962, the Soviets launched two spacecrafts one day apart —Vostock 3 and Vostock 4—to test aspects of space flight, establishing many firsts. The title of this poster, Gemini Constellation, refers to one of the 88 constellations in the sky.
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In this blog part of our #PosterPower celebrations, Nick Gill, one of our volunteer guides and London Transport Museum Friends, talks about his favourite poster in the collection - The Way for All by Alfred France (1911). https://t.co/vSH6bi8tf2
This superb poster is for the Russian release of Buster Keaton's silent movie hit from 1924, "Sherlock Jr". Keaton plays a movie projectionist who dreams he is a great detective. On the poster he is shown studying the manual "How to Become a Sleuth." https://t.co/SdiXU6dt9h
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Delightful details from France - Provence by Tal (1959): https://t.co/HvrsVraR4o
This charming travel poster, with its echoes of Matisse and Picasso, is one of the best created by the French National Railway in the 50s to promote tourism to the country as it recovered from WWII.
The Damnation of Theron Ware by J.H. Twachtman (1896) https://t.co/h3sNSjZV3O
Impressionist landscape artist John H. Twachtman's only known poster for a novel published by Stone & Kimball, "The Damnation of Theron Ware" of 1896.