ART & ARTISTS: 2014-09-21

Travel posters are an ever-popular aspect of graphic design. I thought I would feature a broad spectrum of posters from the first half of the C20th, the golden age of the travel poster probably being associated with the 1920s and 1930s with posters by artists like Roger Broders, featuring sunny Mediterranean scenes.

This is part 4 of an 8 - part post on vintage travel posters. For earlier works see parts 1 - 3 also.

1938c Pennsylvania

1938c Rural Pennsylvania
poster by Katherine Milhouse

1938c
See America

1938c Winter in New York State

1939 Beautiful Sea Cliff

1939 Iran. Kuwait Airways
poster by Alain Gauthier

1939 Normandie. French Line
poster by Hubert Herkomer

1939c Great Barrier Reef, Australia
poster by Percival Albert Trompf

1939c Great Barrier Reef, Australia
poster by Lambert

1939c Visit Historic Ephrata, Pennsylvania
poster by Katherine Milhous

Peter Maxwell Ewart
Peter Maxwell Ewart (1918 - 2001) was a Canadian painter. Born in Kisbey, Saskatchewan, his family moved to Montreal in 1920 where he was educated. In 1938 he attended the Commercial Illustration Studio of New York City. On returning to Montreal in 1939 Ewart sold his first work to the Exhibits Branch of the Canadian Pacific Railway who commissioned him to produce a ski poster in 1939. In the next two decades he completed 24 posters for CPR and Canadian Pacific Airlines.

1940 Winter Sports. Canadian Pacific
poster by Peter Maxwell Ewart

1941 Canadian Rockies. Canadian Pacific

poster by Peter Maxwell Ewart

1942 Travel Canadian Pacific
poster by Peter Maxwell Ewart

1952 Canadian Pacific
poster by Peter Maxwell Ewart

Banff. Canadian Pacific
poster by Peter Maxwell Ewart

Canada for Big Game!
poster by Peter Maxwell Ewart

Travel Canadian Pacific Across Canada
poster by Peter Maxwell Ewart

Travel Canadian Pacific Across Canada!
poster by Peter Maxwell Ewart

Cruise the Great Lakes. Canadian Pacific
poster by Peter Maxwell Ewart

Digby Pines, Nova Scotia
poster by Peter Maxwell Ewart

Québec. Chateau Frontenac. A Canadian Pacific Hotel
poster by Peter Maxwell Ewart

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1945c Martha's Vineyard. New Haven Railroad
poster by Ben Nason

1946 Air France. Amérique du Nord
poster by Guy Arnoux

1946 Orient. Air France
poster by Lucien Boucher

Bernard Villemot

Bernard Villemot (1911 - 1989) was a French graphic artist known primarily for his iconic advertising images for Orangina, Bally shoes, Perrier, and Air France. Between 1932-34 he studied in Paris with artist Paul Colin, who was considered a master of Art Deco. In 1945-46 Villemot did posters for the Red Cross. In the late 1940s he began his famous series of travel posters for Air France.