We just announced our first Facebook giveaway: a 1922 Parapluie-Revel label by Leonetto Cappiello! If you need a strong umbrella for stormy weather, you need one from the Revel Company of Nice, France. In this classic image, all three figures are blown about by the wind, but the Revel umbrellas remain as steady as a rock.
To celebrate reaching 1,000 likes on Facebook we’re giving away this original 5″ x 8″ label to one of our fans. Comment on this post and tell us the name of your favorite poster artist to be entered in to the drawing! We’ll be announcing the winner on Friday, September 9.
We’re excited to be participating in Fashion’s Night Out – Boston on Thursday,
September 8th, 6 – 10pm. IPG will be open late and we’ll be featuring some of fashion’s greatest poster designs from the Roaring Twenties to the Thrifty Thirties, with a spotlight on PKZ and Bally. Join the party on Newbury Street, which will be completely shut down for the first time in 15 years!
In the early 30s, Edward Eggleston produced what is often considered the best series of posters for the Pennsylvania Railroad, the most spectacular of which featured Atlantic City. The historically conservative rail line gave Eggleston the freedom to show off the famous Boardwalk with luscious scenes of aristocratic young ladies on the beach by day and night.
Eggleston’s striking beauties are highlighted by a rich color palette and fabulous architectural settings, which create an idyllic world akin to a Hollywood set. Indeed, Atlantic City was in its heyday during the Depression, when a weary public needed an escape to a more perfect world – either of celluloid or sunshine.
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The prestigious Biltmore Hotel opened in 1926, and its tower was the tallest building in Florida at the time. It boasted the largest pool in the world, and the golf course (Johnny Weissmuller was the resident pro) was designed by the legendary Donald Ross, whose 600 golf courses established the nascent golf industry in the US.
This extremely rare poster likely was created to promote the hotel as the Depression took hold in 1931. A classic in every sense.
We are thrilled to have this new acquisition in our summer travel poster show!
Few artists define an era more than John Held, Jr., whose cartoon humor of the flapper era is still well recognized today. His images of Betty Coed and Joe College graced the pages of the New Yorker, Harpers Bazaar and Vanity Fair, showcasing the lifestyle of the new generation while often poking fun at its out-of-touch elders.
Held made only a few posters, a wonderful small group for the New Haven Railroad in the Twenties and Thirties that were a big hit. His humorous poster of a moonlit weenie-roast on a beach at Martha’s Vineyard features his unmistakable caricature style and is one of the most sought after images of the island.
A noted California painter, Siegriest designed eight posters for the Indian Federal Court Building at the Golden Gate International Exposition in San Francisco in 1939.
The series highlights traditional arts from the Navajo, Pueblo, Haida, Plains, Chippewa, Seneca, Eskimo, and Apache tribal nations. This particular poster features Chippewa pictographs and a “false face” mask used in Seneca healing rituals.
This beautiful set of silkscreens is one of the most famous poster series of the WPA period, and we’re excited to include two of them in our summer travel show.
International Poster Gallery proudly presents our 18th annual summer poster show Pack Your Bags!, an exhibition of original travel and transportation posters from around the world. The exhibition features over 50 original vintage posters advertising exotic vacation destinations, luxurious rail and air travel packages, and modes of personal transport.
Gallery owner Jim Lapides has amassed one of the largest collections of AIDS posters in the world — more than 3,000 designs from nearly 100 countries. His collection is currently showcased in Graphic Intervention: 25 Years of International AIDS Awareness Posters 1985-2010, a first-of-its-kind exhibition of arresting and fearless international public health announcement posters.
This exhibition presents a comprehensive overview of the diverse visual strategies employed to educate the public on the AIDS epidemic. The messages in Graphic Intervention champion issues such as disease research and eradication, world health, international relations, sexual education, and discrimination.
With over 3,000 posters to choose from, curators Elizabeth Resnick and Javier Cortes narrowed down the wealth of visual depictions to 153 examples from 44 countries. From Papua New Guinea to Denmark, Venezuela to Morocco, these posters demonstrate the remarkable diversity of visual solutions used to address a public health crisis.
The exhibit opened in Boston at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in September 2010, followed by the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA. in February 2011. It is now on display at the Art Directors Club in New York City through July 29th with sponsorship from the Kenneth Cole Foundation. Three additional venues are scheduled through 2012. A 96-page, full-color Catalog is available for purchase through mail order.
Raising money was a central challenge for all combatants in the World Wars, which were exhausting struggles of attrition. Bond drives became essential, and bond posters rapidly became the most common poster category of both wars.
This stirring image by famed illustrator N.C. Wyeth used loaded cultural symbols to stir emotions, from the billowing American flag to a determined Uncle Sam pointing the way to victory. Behind Uncle Sam is a never-ending phalanx of advancing B17s and infantrymen, formations that suggest a unity of purpose and collective strength. Author Jeffrey Schnapp coined this technique “The March” and it is seen in many of the best modern political posters.
This is the very rare and breathtaking large 40 x 60 inch format.
We just announced our first Facebook giveaway: a 1922 Parapluie-Revel label by Leonetto Cappiello! If you need a strong umbrella for stormy weather, you need one from the Revel Company of Nice, France. In this classic image, all three figures are blown about by the wind, but the Revel umbrellas remain as steady as a rock.
