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Art Exhibition Posters. A Buyers Guide

Art Exhibition Posters.  A Buyers Guide Regular readers of my blog will know by now how much I love vintage posters, especially British travel and propaganda designs. But there’s one type of poster that I’ve become more and more interested in over the last couple of years: original art exhibition...

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15 Royal Academy Summer exhibition posters

The annual Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts in Burlington House, London, is a British institution. First held in 1769, the exhibition has taken place every year since without exception. The eclectic mix of paintings, prints, drawings, sculpture, architectural designs and models continues to draw huge crowds during...

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Bruce Roberts (1918-1974), Artist-designer

In the years after the Second World War commercial art in Britain was booming. A new generation of designers and illustrators brought a cheery, optimistic, aesthetic to advertising that saw its greatest expression in the posters and publicity of progressive commissioners, such as the General Post Office (GPO), London Transport...

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Kauffer's inky adverts

Its amazing what you can find when you're looking for something else. Last summer I was in New York searching for vintage posters, when a dealer showed me three original commercial artworks by poster legend Edward McKnight Kauffer (1890 – 1954). Executed in gouache paint, and signed/dated on the front and...

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