Today’s is a mystery date poster. Design by Blanche L Anish, this copy held in the US’ Library of Congress. There’s a stamp on the back, ‘July 7 1937’, so the library is dating the image to the thirties, but many details say it’s a much earlier one to me – though civil, rather than…
Tag: Inter-war
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…
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…
PlaneSkiMan
Today’s Poster. This mountain circuit International Flying Meet, was based in Zurich (love the Umlaut in the ‘u’). I can’t find any online references to the event beyond the poster – which is very strange. In 1922 aircraft were not ‘sleek’ or simple to a modern aesthetic at all, but this hasn’t slowed Swiss artist…
Missing Fabric Man
You never know where the next one will come from*. Today it’s a recreated modern version of an historical quilt, both in an excellent little book by Bill Volckening called ‘Modern Roots – Today’s Quilts from Yesterday’s Inspiration’. Available from your quality bookseller, in our local case that would be Can Do Books, Melbourne, though…
The Lockheed Header
The current page header image is a painting of a Lockheed Model 12 Electra Junior used on a Lockheed publicity brochure, from my personal collection. James Kightly, Vintage Aero Writer.
Deco DH
I posted this image, on Facebook in February 2018, a year ago. It was taken by my friend and colleague the artist Ian Bott. It’s a magnificent Art Deco artwork featuring de Havilland DH.86 motif as used on an inter-war ocean liner. It’s between three and five foot long and was on show at the…
Return from France
Today’s Poster. Another great period airline poster from the inter-war period. I could just blog about those alone, but there’s some quite diverse stuff coming up, including a metal aeroplane and some fabric, and not aircraft covering, either. In this one, I love the looming Eiffel Tower crossing the channel to Croydon (which was then…
Rare Gloster
Today we have a magazine cover. According to this listing, it’s the October 1937 issue of Air Stories. As well as the delightful story titles and bylines ‘Recording Officer’ and ‘Finger of Death’, the cover illustration is something that just jumped out at me as soon as I saw this on the internet. While it…
A Year of Aviation Illustration & Art 