Willard Frederic Elmes Posters

Original Vintage Poster-Suisse-Interlaken-Montagne-Ski, c.1950 Poster to promote tourism in the city of Interlaken during the summer period (April to October). Additional detai...

Original vintage TWA Italy 1950s travel advertising poster featuring a wodnerful design by American artist David Klein. We adore the softly illustrated vie...

Air France commissioned French artist Bernard Villemot to design this dazzling poster to promote tourism to Paris in 1967. Primarily printed in blue and green, the painterly design f...

Original Vintage Travel Poster-J. Lacaze-Normandie-Bretagne-Jersey, c.1910 Poster from French Railways to promote the tourism in Normandy, Brittany, and Jersey Island...

QUEBEC 'La Belle Province' Original Vintage Ski Travel Poster, c. 1950's Artist Anonymous Year 1950's Dimensions 60 x 98 cm Condition Good

A vintage and rare Fiorucci poster featuring postcards from around the world in a collage that captures both sights from around the world and beautiful woman in various states of undress — plus Queen Elizabeth holding a tin of crackers Elio Fiorucci...

During the 1950s and 1960s, American artist David Klein created dozens of alluring posters for Howard Hughes' glamorous Trans World Airlines, capturing the excitement and adventure of travel. His iconic designs, with their bright and colorful illustrations of famous landmarks, won many awards and came to define the spirit of the jet age. Issued by Trans World Airlines circa 1954, a Queen's Guard stands sentry in front of Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament on Klein's painterly poster to advertise TWA flights to London, during a period of burgeoning interest in England following the 1953...

Original French Vintage Travel Poster-Geo Dorival-Bretagne-Saint Malo, 1909 Poster by the French Railways for the promotion of tourism in Britta...

Original Vintage Poster-Roger Subie-Le Haut Barr-Vosges-Railway, c.1925 Poster of the Railways of Alsace and Lorraine to promote tourism in the Haut-Barr, around Saverne (Bas-Rhin)....

Oran was a major multicultural hub, a link between Arabian and European people. This poster was created just before the Algerian War of Independence began in the mid-1950s. The poste...

Produced for British Railways to promote rail travel to the Scottish Highlands, this scarce British quad royal travel poster for the Western Highlands features a picturesque and peac...

Original vintage TWA Holy Land 1960s travel advertising poster featuring a wonderful design by American artist David Klein. We adore Klein's typically stylised and colourful design of a dove carrying an olive branch in its beak is approaching Noah's great wooden ark floating on the flood waters. Trans World Airlines (TWA) was a major airline in the United States that operated from 1930 until it was acquired by American Airlines in 2001. It was formed as Transcontinental & Western Air to operate a route from New York City to Los Angeles, soon followed by multiple National routes. Howard Hughes acquired control of TWA in 1939, and after World War II led the expansion of the airline to serve Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, making TWA a second unofficial flag carrier of the United States after Pan Am. David Klein (1918 – 2005) was an American artist, best known for his influential work in advertising. Although he produced illustrations for Broadway theatrical productions, Hollywood films, the United States Army, and numerous corporate clients, Klein is best remembered for the iconic travel images he created for Howard Hughes and Trans World Airlines (TWA). Between approximately 1955–1965, Klein designed numerous award-winning travel advertisement posters, the bulk for TWA, many of which are now considered emblematic of the 1960s Jet Age. In 1957 New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) added Klein's iconic TWA Times Square...