Our 24th Annual Summer Show

August 1st through Labor Day, 2017

We are celebrating the spirit of the season with our 24th Annual Summer Poster Show. The joys of beach, travel, music, sport, fine food and spirits from the 1890s to the present are featured in more than 40 vintage posters on exhibit in our gallery. Some highlights:

Walter Schnackenberg, Regina Palast Hotel - Tanz Bar, 1932

Schnackenberg was known as the "Toulouse-Lautrec of Germany" for good reason -- like Lautrec he produced few posters, but all of them are considered masterpieces of a decadent and stylish world. In Schnackenberg's case, that was the exotic, erotic, exquisite and twisted world of expressionist pre- and post-WWI Munich.

This rare poster to promote a dance in the Regina Palast Bar featuring the talented Billy Bartholomew Band is a stunning intersection of jagged diagonals. It focuses in on a chic dancing couple, lost in the music and each other as if in a dream. It is one of the masterpieces of Art Deco.

Tom Purvis, The July London Magazine - For Holiday Reading, 1928

This poster promoting the July issue of London Magazine invited viewers to dip their toes in the water and buy the popular magazine. The very graphic and somewhat risque cover (for 1928) was created by Tom Purvis, one of the finest Art Deco artists in Britain. Purvis created more than 100 posters for the London North East Railroad (LNER), many of which are Modernist classics that featured rich patternmaking and blocks of flat color. Ever stylish, clean and direct, Purvis was sought out by first rank clients like Austin Reed, the quintessential men's clothier.

 G. Vanden Eynde, Caravelle Jet Continental - Sabena Airlines, 1961

The Caravelle was the first short/medium range jet liner, entering service in 1959. Produced in France, it was a successful plane, whose aft-mounted engine and clean design is still the standard for smaller jet liners.

Sabena received their first Caravelles in 1961 and the Belgian airline produced this elegant Mad Men styled poster to celebrate speedy travel throughout the world. Rare!