That is ‘drones on a rug’, not tough drones. This is taken from an online article entitled ‘Lessons from the Afghan Women Who Weave Modern War into an Ancient Tradition’ on Artsy.net. [Photo by Kevin Sudeith, via Warrug.com] It’s very difficult to summarise the complex factors that have led to these rugs featuring the weapons…
Month: March 2019
Bond, Nellie & Bond
Today’s Bond Poster. There’s nothing quite as cool Sean Connery flying the aircraft with his toes, just being very cool while everything explodes around him! From the film ‘You Only Live Twice’, this poster is the artwork by the exemplary action poster painter Frank McCarthy. You can own your own version at £2,250 – here,…
Garish Harry
A pulp magazine cover. This one, from ‘Air Stories’ magazine of the inter war period features much promise in the text, but I’ve chosen it because it features a reasonably accurately drawn Royal Aircraft Factory R.E.8, known to its crews as a ‘Harry Tate’ after the music hall comedian of the era. But. The shape’s…
Bright Prop
A fine art Mural today. ‘Propeller’, Air Pavillion, 1937 by Sonia Delaunay. From the Tate exhibition notes: “Sonia and Robert were both invited to contribute to the 1937 Paris Exhibition, a project that would take up much of their time and energy over the best part of two years. Entitled The International Exhibition of Arts and…
Air Seat
Today’s Poster. Just a quick post today, here the perennial airline theme ‘sitting in the sky’ here with the Lufthansa stork symbol. James Kightly, Vintage Aero Writer. Source unknown.
It’s a Chaps’ Air Force
Today it’s a brochure cover, offering further education in the Royal Australian Air Force. Having aircraft in the background might make it seem more attractive (while you’re on the phone thumbing your papers and with a classy wire in tray) but I think the earning for the wide open spaces implicit in the painting might…
Mind the Dame
Today’s Poster is to promote the cars of now-forgotten prestige French car maker Cottin & Desgouttes. If in doubt, add a semi-nude female – here with wings, but the aviation connection isn’t her, but the aircraft in the background, and that Cottin & Desgouttes were used as an engine builder (Gnome et Rhône radials) in the…
Feminin Fly In
Today’s Poster. Another one for Women’s History Month, this was also picked up by the Musee de l’Air on their Twitter feed. A Women’s Aviation Meet, believed to be 1953, in August at Dinard. They add that the poster’s artist, Jacques Jacquelin used the magazine 1952 Paris Match No.173 for inspiration, notably the release of…
Crash Pastoral
Today’s Poster has a remarkably placid feel, despite depicting the aftermath of a floatplane ditching. Entitled ‘Warning! Consider the possible consequences if you are careless in your work’, it is a 1917 painting by L.N. Britton, reproduced as a 104 x 72 cm poster and shows a pair of US Navy floatplanes, one of the…
Starry Biplane
This riff on a very conventional looking Christian oil painting by N. C. Wyeth (1882 – 1945), entitled ‘The Sign in the Heavens which the Judean Shepherds Watching Their Flocks See this Year’ differs only from the conventional Christian iconography in having a biplane as the subject of the shepherds’ gaze. Dating from 1918, it…
A Year of Aviation Illustration & Art 