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The Most Valuable Movie Posters in History
The event was advertised with a beautiful poster by French artist Henri Brispot — which means that at the precise moment when the movies were invented, movie posters were invented too. One of Brispot’s posters for the Lumières’ debut went up for auction in 2018 at Sotheby's in London. And while i...
Collecting Vintage Olympic Posters
Collecting Olympic posters was straightforward up until the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. Prior to those games, the International Olympic Committee would choose one official poster (on some occasions, they chose two) to represent the games. Those images became indelibly connected to the games they represe...
The Daily Heller: The Poster Child for Poster Auctioneers
At the recent event celebrating Poster House’s fifth anniversary, you casually mentioned you’re now 30 years into the poster business. The Swann Galleries have been in your family for a long time. How did you become interested in posters?Swann Galleries was actually founded by my grandfather’s ne...
Vintage Posters - Masterpieces of Style - an Automobilia Resource magazine sneak peek
Examples of Art Nouveau There are relatively few true Art Nouveau posters, whereas some contain elements of this beautiful style. Despite its smaller size [20” x 15”] the “1903 Automobile Club de France” exhibition, by Privat Livemont, epitomizes this short-lived design aesthetic. The colors are ...
Emil Cardinaux, pioneer of Swiss poster art
Swiss tourism started booming at the end of the 19th century with increasing accessibility of remote Alpine regions. Zermatt owed much of its popularity to the Matterhorn, which had first been climbed in 1865 by a team of British mountaineers and Swiss mountain guides. It was the early days of tr...
Wonder City of the World: New York City Travel Posters
Wonder City of the World features essays from PBS’s Antiques Roadshow star, antiques expert, and author Nicholas D. Lowry alongside Poster House Chief Curator & Director of Content Angelina Lippert, curator Tim Medland, author and editor Catherine Bindman, and design experts Colette Gaiter, Jon K...
UW AHC Receives Wyoming Movie Posters From Dwight Cleveland Collection
The collection consists of 28 movie posters and lobby cards focusing on Western films, especially those whose stories took place in Wyoming. Cleveland is a nationally and internationally known movie poster collector whose collection at one time numbered more than 45,000 items. He began collecting...
The Polish School of Posters - A Remarkable Period in Graphic Design History
After the Second World War, the ‘Polish People’s Republic’ was placed under strict Soviet rule until 1989 and the fall of the Berlin Wall. The population, still reeling from the horrors of Nazi occupation, suffered great repression and hardship during this time. As well as the psychological damag...
Poster House First Place in The Best of Craft and Digital Collide in This Year’s PRINT Awards
ADVERTISINGFirst Place Poster House Block Party 2022 Zipeng Zhu + Poster House USA On August 6, 2022, Poster House hosted its first Block Party in the Flatiron Plaza. It was a day of activities, tours, performances, giveaways, and more. Designer Zipeng Zhu and his practice Dazzle Studio colla...
In the Drivers Seat
Check out the latest issue of Carmel Magazine, that has a wonderful writeup on Tony Singer and Vintage Auto Posters. Read the article below and enjoy https://e-digitaledition.com/carmel_magazine/summer-2023/148/index.html
New IVPDA Members
It is with much pleasure that we inform you of the following member changes while simultaneously congratulating: Real Old Paper in San Francisco run by Andrew England Projekt 26 in London run by Harriet Williams and Sylwia Newman ArtWise in New York run by Bernard Rugerie All three are now full ...
Rare vintage Swiss poster collection finds a home at Virginia Tech
For as little as one dollar a gallon, these ingredients could be boiled together to create a thick, sticky, wheatpaste that adheres to paper - think the rubber cement you had in school as a child but white and paste-like. This concoction was then applied to batches of the same advertising posters...
Amazing Vintage Auto Posters!
Singer, “Tony” to his friends and clients, is not only the founder of Vintage Auto Posters (https://vintageautoposters.com), he is the collector, curator, packer and shipper of his posters. And he only has one employee — himself. “There’s nothing else in the world like this site, just for the spe...
Romania Had a Poster Tradition Too
Ovidiu is also a maven for Romania’s design history, and shares his research in the Romanian design magazine FOI on the topic of the first 50 years of the Romanian poster (1880–1937) and agitation and political propaganda (1940s–1950s). His motivation? “All the information is splattered all over...
New IVPDA Members
It is with much pleasure that we inform you of the following member changes while simultaneously congratulating: Galleria L'Image in Alassio Italy run by Alessandro Bellenda which is now a full member. We would also like to recognize and welcome our two newest provisional members: Real Old Pa...
The Market for Vintage Travel Posters Takes Flight During Pandemic
You can read the article on bloomberg.com While vintage travel posters can be found at many of our dealers, a special acknowledgement is made to International Poster Gallery, Chisholm Larsson Gallery, and The Ross Art Group, Inc who are all quoted in the article. When buying an original vinta...
Shell Art and Advertising
Edward McKnight Kauffer, Stonehenge, 1931, Lithograph poster, 76 x 114 cm (30x45 inch) Shell Heritage Art Collection, Copyright Simon Rendall. During the 1920s and 1930s, the British poster flourished in an age of enlightened patronage that cultivated links between commercial advertising, the vis...