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Andrew Johnson (1893 - 1973)
The Tower of London (1935)
Lithograph 102 x 64 cm A copy of this poster is held by the London Transport Museum (1983/4/4178). Queen Elizabeth I, accompanied by two Yeomen Warders, surveys the white stone of the Tower of London. Johnson's design encourages us to use London Transport (now Transport for London) to visit the Tower in all its historic glory. Andrew Johnson was born in Portsmouth and studied at the Central School of Art and Design (now Central St Martin's) in London. He worked as a poster designer for several advertising agencies. He designed posters for BP, Shell, the London and North Eastern Railway, Southern Railway, The Times, and General Motors (to name but a few). He made advertising graphics in New York in the late 1920s and later founded Grainger Johnson (a poster design company) with Tom Grainger. He was a member of the British Society of Poster Designers and several of his designs are held by the London Transport Museum. Condition: backed to linen; excellent. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other original vintage posters. -
John Finnie (born 1935)
Waterways (1965)
Original vintage poster 102 x 63 cm Overprinted 'This is a reproduction of a poster designed for London Transport'. This was overprinted for a period on copies of London Transport posters (produced on the normal production line) that were sold in what is now the London Transport Museum in Covent Garden. Finnie's poster promotes travel on London's waterways, and indicates that said waterways are in easy reach of London Underground stations (here, Warwick Road). John Finnie was an illustrator and designer who trained at Leicester College of Art. He was elected a Member of the Society of Industrial Artists and Designers in 1958, and then worked as a freelance artist, designing posters for the British Ship Building Conference, The Post Office, Shell, London Transport, and many other notable companies. From 1976 he began producing glass engraving designs. Condition: generally very good. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other original vintage London Transport posters. -
Paul Nash (1889 - 1946)
Come Out to Live (1936)
Original vintage poster 101 x 63 cm A copy of this poster is held by the London Transport Museum. Published by the Baynard Press. Nash's poster encourages us to buy a season ticket in order to travel more cheaply by train. A modernist suburb is juxtaposed with a monochrome photograph of the Royal Exchange in the heart of the City of London, suggesting that by travelling in from suburbia we can "come out to live". Paul Nash was a modernist, surrealist British artist. He is known for his modernist landscapes and work as a war artist. He studied at the Slate School of Art and soon focused his work on landscapes, especially those containing ruins; he went on to produce some of the most recognisable artworks of the First World War, mostly depicting war-torn landscapes. Condition: very good. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other original vintage posters. -
Graham Sutherland (1903 - 1980)
Royal Ascot (1935)
Original vintage poster 101 x 63 cm A text poster advertising Southern Railway as a means of travelling to and from Royal Ascot. Graham Sutherland OM was an English artist known for his romantic, abstract landscapes and portraits of public figures, including Churchill and the Queen Mother. Sutherland spent the 1920s mostly making landscape prints, but, following the collapse of the print market in the early 1930s branched out into watercolours. He also undertook a few commercial commissions for posters, working for London Transport, Shell and others. He served as an official war artist in the Second World War, painting industrial scenes on the British home front. After the war he worked in oils and explored figurative painting. Condition: generally very good; backed to linen. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other original vintage London Transport posters.
