1930s Prints and Multiples

Medium: original etching. This impression on Canson et Montgolfier wove paper was printed in 1937 in an edition of 500 for the "Paris 1937" portfolio. Printed at the atelier of Jean-...

Medium: original etching. This impression on Canson et Montgolfier wove paper was printed in 1937 in an edition of 500 for the "Paris 1937" portfolio. Printed at the atelier of Jean-...

Original vintage Summer Olympic Games poster for the 1936 Olympic Games held in Berlin from 1-16 August published by the German Railways Head Office for Tourist Traffic and the Propa...

Original vintage Soviet travel poster for the Georgian Military Highway issued by the state tourism agency Intourist featuring great Art Deco artwork by Alexander Zhitomirsky (1907-1...

Medium: original etching. This impression on Canson et Montgolfier wove paper was printed in 1937 in an edition of 500 for the "Paris 1937" portfolio. Printed at the atelier of Jean-...

Medium: original etching. This impression on Canson et Montgolfier wove paper was printed in 1937 in an edition of 500 for the "Paris 1937" portfolio. Printed at the atelier of Jean-...

Original vintage travel poster for Australia The World's Loveliest Harbour Sydney featuring a stunning painting by Albert Collins (1883-1951) depicting an aerial view over the docks,...

Rare original vintage USSR travel poster in Swedish - Visit the Soviet Union / Besok Sovjet-Unionen - featuring a great Art Deco design depicting classic cars and buses driving throu...

Medium: original etching. This impression on Canson et Montgolfier wove paper was printed in 1937 in an edition of 500 for the "Paris 1937" portfolio. Printed at the atelier of Jean-...

Medium: original etching. This impression on Canson et Montgolfier wove paper was printed in 1937 in an edition of 500 for the "Paris 1937" portfolio. Printed at the atelier of Jean-...

Medium: original etching. This impression on Canson et Montgolfier wove paper was printed in 1937 in an edition of 500 for the "Paris 1937" portfolio. Printed at the atelier of Jean-...

Medium: engraving (after the 1932 etching for Poésies de Mallarmé). Printed in 1933 on watermarked Montgolfier laid paper and published in Paris by Arts et Métiers Graphiques. Size: ...

Original vintage travel advertising poster - Imperial Airways Luxury in the new Empire Flying-Boats to Europe Africa India China Australia - featuring colourful artwork of smartly dr...

Original vintage skiing and winter sport train travel poster - Ski in Canada Canadian National Railways Powder snow Rolling hills Fast trails - featuring a colourful Art Deco design ...

Rare original vintage Guinness advertising poster - Bottle Royal Guinness Is Good For You - featuring a fun Alice in Wonderland themed illustration by the notable artist John Gilroy ...

Original vintage travel advertising poster - Travel Luxuriously in the World's largest airliners Europe Africa India Far East Imperial Airways The Greatest Air Service in the World -...

Original vintage travel advertising poster - Imperial Airways Lunching in the Air! The most comfortable air line is Imperial Airways to Europe Africa Asia Australia - featuring a fli...

Original vintage Soviet travel poster by Intourist - Winter in the USSR - featuring an illustration by the notable artist Nikolai Zhukov (1908-1973) of skiers skiing down a slope at ...

Medium: original woodcut. Catalogue reference Roethel 105. Printed in Paris in 1938 for the art revue XXe Siecle (issue number 3). Image size: 8 1/2 x 8 3/4 inches (217 x 220 mm). Sh...

Marc Chagall (1887-1958) Bible : Saul and David (Saül et David), 1939 Original etching Printed signature in the plate On Montval vellum, 44 x 33.5 cm (c. 17.3 x 13.1 inch) INFORMAT...

Marc Chagall (1887-1958) Bible : Moses and Aaron with Pharaoh (Moïse et Aaron devant Pharaon), 1939 Original etching Not signed On Montval vellum, 44 x 33.5 cm (c. 17.3 x 13.1 inch)...

Marc Chagall (1887-1958) Bible : The burning bush (Le buisson ardent), 1939 Original etching Printed signature in the plate On Montval vellum, 44 x 33.5 cm (c. 17.3 x 13.1 inch) IN...

To see our other original vintage posters, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller" - or send us a message if you cannot find the poster you want. 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...

Marc Chagall (1887-1958) Bible : Prophecy about Jerusalem (Prophétie sur Jérusalem), 1939 Original etching Printed signature in the plate On Montval vellum, 44 x 33.5 cm (c. 17.3 x ...

Original vintage London Transport poster promoting travel by Green Line Coach featuring stunning artwork by the notable French Art Deco designer Jean Dupas (1882-1964) depicting men ...

Marc Chagall (1887-1958) Bible : Samson and the lion, (Samson et le lion), 1939 Original etching Printed signature in the plate On Montval vellum, 33.5 x 44 cm (c. 13.1 x 17.3 inch)...

Original vintage travel advertising poster - Speed and Comfort The World's largest Air Liners Imperial Airways The British Air Line - featuring great artwork showing smartly dressed ...

Marc Chagall (1887-1958) Bible : Elijah touched by an angel, (Elie touché par un ange), 1939 Original etching Printed signature in the plate On Montval vellum, 33.5 x 44 cm (c. 13.1...

Marc Chagall (1887-1958) Bible : The judgment of Solomon (Le jugement de Salomon), 1939 Original etching Printed signature in the plate On Montval vellum, 44 x 33.5 cm (c. 17.3 x 13...

Original vintage winter sport travel poster for Austria featuring a dynamic Art Deco design by the notable Austria artist and poster designer Paul Kirnig (1891-1959) depicting a skie...

Original vintage cruise travel poster advertising Plymouth New York issued by Compagnie Generale Transatlantique French Line CGT. Elegant Art Deco design featuring an ocean liner shi...

Medium: lithograph and pochoir. Catalogue reference: Dupin 1310, Benhoura 396. This lithograph was printed in 1938 at the atelier Mourlot and published in Paris by Teriade for the art revue Verve (volume 1, number 3). Four artists were commissioned to contribute compositions on the four seasons, with Miro choosing Summer. A beautiful, richly-inked impression of this important Miro print...

Original vintage sport poster - Germany 1936 IV Olympic Winter Games Garmisch Partenkirchen 6-16 February - featuring dynamic artwork by Ludwig Hohlwein (1874-1949) depicting a skier wearing a bib with the Olympic rings symbol on it, holding his skis on the left with his right arm in the air celebrating his victory in front of snowy mountain peaks visible in the background, the text below in red and white letters and information at the bottom - For particulars apply to the Organising Committee of the IVth Olympic Winter Games 1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Bavaria. Published by the Reichsbahn Centrale for the German Travel Agents...

Original vintage cruise ship travel poster - Canadian Pacific Empress of Australia Europe Canada USA - featuring a night time seascape by Al...

Medium: original woodcut. Catalogue reference Roethel 145. Printed in Paris in 1938 for the art revue XXe Siecle (issue number 3). Image size: 7 x 8 1/2 inches (170 x 218 mm). Sheet ...

Sunday Morning. Title: Sunday Morning Artist: Dox Thrash (American, Griffin, Georgia 1893–1965 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) Printer: Sam J. Brown (1901-1994). Date: ca. 1939. Medium: Drypoint Dimensions: sheet: 12 5/8 x 10 5/8 in. (32 x 27 cm) plate: 8 7/8 x 7 7/8 in. (22.5 x 20 cm) This is the most heavily inked, atmospheric example known to exist. Unique, unsigned example from the collection of artist Samuel J. Brown. Dox Thrash (1893–1965) was an African-American artist who was famed as a skilled draftsman, master printmaker, and painter and as the co-inventor of the Carborundum printmaking process.[1] The subject of his artwork was African American life. He served as a printmaker with the W.P.A. at the Fine Print Workshop of Philadelphia. The artist spent much of his career living and working in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.[1] Early life Dox Thrash was born on March 22, 1893, in Griffin, Georgia.[2] He was the second of four children in his family. Thrash left home at the age of fifteen in search of work up north. He was part of the Great Migration (African American) looking for industrial work in the North. The first job that Thrash got was working with a circus and a Vaudeville act. In 1911, at the age of 18, he moved to Chicago, Illinois.[3] He got a job as an elevator operator during the day, and used this source of income to attend school.[3] In 1914 he attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.[1] In 1917, the United States declared war on Germany and entered World War I. In September 1917, at the age of twenty-four, Thrash enlisted in the army.[3] He was placed in the 365th Infantry Regiment, 183rd Brigade, 92nd Division, also known as the Buffalo Soldiers.[1] During combat, Thrash suffered shell shock and a gas attack, but was not permanently injured. Career as an artist Front cover of Dox Thrash: An African American Master Printmaker Rediscovered, by John Ittmann. After having served in the war, Thrash qualified as a war veteran and enrolled in the Art Institute of Chicago with the support of federal funding.[3] After finishing his education, he traveled intermittently from Georgia to Chicago, Boston, New York, and finally Philadelphia, working odd jobs - experiences that provided him with subject matter to later paint. Settling in Philadelphia by 1925, he took a job working as a janitor. In his free time, he continued his art career and used his talent to create emblems, such as the one for the North Philadelphia Businessmen's Association, and posters in exhibitions and festivals, including the 2nd Annual National Negro Music Festival and the Tra Club of Philadelphia.[1] This gained him local recognition and opened doors for new artistic endeavors. By 1929, Thrash was attending nightly classes within these clubs, namely with Earl Horter of the Graphic Sketch Club, now known as the Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial.[3] In 1937 Thrash joined the government-sponsored Works Progress Administration (WPA)'s Federal Art Project.[4] Through the WPA, Thrash began working at the Fine Print Workshop of Philadelphia.[5] At the Fine Print Workshop of Philadelphia, Thrash, along with Michael J. Gallagher and Hugh Mesibov, began experimenting and co-inventing the process of carborundum mezzotint, a printmaking technique.[1] Carborundum printmaking uses a carbon-based abrasive to burnish copper plates creating an image that can produce a print in tones ranging from pale gray to deep black. The method is similar to the more difficult and complicated mezzotint process developed in the 17th century. He used this as his primary medium for much of his career and created his greatest works with it. One of his first pieces employing this nascent technique was his anonymous self-portrait entitled Mr. X. With this new technique, the three gained increasing recognition as they published more and more graphics within newspapers and featured more and more pieces within exhibitions. Their works often featured subtle commentaries about social and economic exploitation regarding the contemporary politics of the Great Depression and the Second World War. By 1940, Thrash, Gallagher, and Mesibov all began to gain attention in local circles for their carborundum prints, although the role that each artist played in the development of the process was left unclear.[6] In 1960, Thrash participated in a show at the Pyramid Club, a social organization of Black professional men that held an annual art exhibit starting in 1941. Others on hand were Howard N. Watson, Benjamin Britt, Robert Jefferson and Samuel J. Brown Jr. Thrash spent the later years of his life mentoring young African American artists. He died on April 19, 1965, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.[2] He was posthumously honored almost 40 years later in 2001 with a major retrospective, titled Dox Thrash: An African-American Master Printmaker Rediscovered, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.[7] Thrash's work was included in the 2015 exhibition We Speak: Black Artists in Philadelphia, 1920s-1970s at the Woodmere Art Museum.[8] Relation to Alain Locke and the New Negro Movement This section needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources in this section. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (June 2022) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) Alain LeRoy Locke (1885-1954) was an intellectual, professor and author who espoused that African Americans, specifically artists, to capture the personality, lives, and essence of their people in The New Negro. He explained “The Negro physiognomy must be freshly and objectively conceived on its own patterns if it is ever to be seriously and importantly interpreted. Art must discover and reveal the beauty which prejudice and caricature have overlaid.”[9] What Locke is expressing here is not only the call for black artists to overcome racial prejudices via positive artistic representations of blacks, but that the actual African American individual like Thrash portrayed the lives of fellow blacks, and had the power to propagate this idea of the New Negro, as Locke explains, “There is the possibility that the sensitive artistic mind of the American Negro, stimulated by a cultural pride and interest, will receive…a profound and galvanizing influence.”[10] In his shadowy carborundum mezzotint Cabin Days, Thrash depicts a southern black family on the porch of their shack-like home in a rural landscape. The man, woman, and child, clutched tenderly to the female figure's breast, create an intimate scene highlighted by the bright cleanliness of the laundry hanging behind them. Placed in front of the drying laundry, they are framed by one aspect of the hard work accomplished during the day. Close to one another, staring collectively outward at the Southern landscape, they, and their laudable priorities of cleanliness and family, are made the bright focal point in the poor, unstable atmosphere. Such inner warmth is seemingly incompatible with the family's crooked and disheveled surroundings, and their fuzzy appearance with a lack of facial detail makes the scene into a general archetype for rural southern blacks living conditions and qualities. Thrash was referencing an experience common to thousands of black families in rural occupations at the turn of the 20th century, often forced into slavery-like tenant farming as their only means of livelihood in the racist South. The “uneven clapboards, leaning porch, broken shutter, and uprooted fence” are rife with instability, much like the post-slavery economic and social systems of the South, making it clear that for African Americans, “the house is not the home; rather, the figures on the porch represent family unity and continuity”.[10] In this way, Thrash is able to not only champion the positive qualities of blacks in the family setting but underscore this with a symbolic look at their disadvantaged situation, making it all the more impressive that they persevere. Thrash symbolically depicted harsh realities for the African American at this transitional point in history while conferring a sensitive rendering of their humanity, akin to any other race, despite its utter denial by American society. Through softer tempera washes like A New Day, he literally and figuratively paints a picture of a black family transitioning from the South to the North during the Great Migration, making a hopeful, daring leap to attempt to be equal members of the society that has historically oppressed them. On the left side of the canvas lie muddled farm houses and plow handles, embodiments of their rural life of tedious hard labor behind them, fading to gray. Their hopeful gazes “…convey the optimism of the scores of African Americans who left the countryside to pursue better job opportunities, health care, and education in urban centers”.[6] The stance of the figures, with their chins raised in a dignified gesture towards cityscape ahead suggest a confidence and ambitiousness in their collective futures in this new northern industrial terrain. Even the child, clutched securely in the arm of the mother figure against her breast is not only serenely grinning, but calm enough to appear to gently doze, confident in that the journey ahead will result positively, poses no threat. The exposed arm of the woman is notable as well, being unusually thick and muscular, along with the general proportions of the kneeling father, who position on the ground appears not pleading but rather in a slightly exhausted, but upright gratefulness for the promise ahead. Thrash makes it clear that this family has traveled a long way, but is not depleted; rather they are strong and preparing for further hard work and hopeful success ahead. They are the quintessence of the New Negro, in that they are not only journeying forward to seize previously unobtainable opportunities that will enhance their lives, but the manner with which they hold themselves provokes a certain level of warranted respect for their humanity, from the viewer. In fact it was the strength of his fellow African Americans that Thrash often emphasized, amongst other positive characteristics in the face of adversity in personal portraits. Through his carborundum print Life, he depicts a neatly dressed black girl reading...

Rare original vintage advertising poster for the GPO General Post Office - Air Mail Routes - featuring a great design by the notable artist Edward McKnight Kauffer (1890-1954) showin...

Medium: original color woodcut. Catalogue reference Roethel 201. Printed in 1939 for the art revue XXe Siecle (issue number 5-6) and published in Paris by San Lazzaro. Sheet size: 9 ...

Medium: lithograph. This lithograph was printed in 1938 at the atelier Mourlot and published in Paris by Teriade for the art revue Verve (volume 1, number 3). Four artists were commi...

Original vintage London Transport poster - the Museums Kensington - featuring detailed artwork by Fred Taylor (1875-1963) depicting an aerial map view of the V&A Victoria and Albert ...

Medium: original linoleum cut. This linocut by Italian Futurist Gino Severini was printed in 1939 for the art revue XXe Siecle and published in Paris by San Lazzaro. Size: 12 1/2 x 9...

Original vintage Africa travel poster for Zimbabwe Southern Rhodesia featuring a stunning scenic view by William George Bevington (1881-1953) depicting rocks and the ruins of the anc...

Les Amans d'Arlequin is an artwork realized by Gino Severini in 1930. Pochoir from the Suite "Fleurs et Masques". Very good condition. Signed in plate on the lower right. Ref. Ca...

Joan Miro (Spain, 1893-1983) 'Aidez L'Espagne (Aid to Spain)', 1937 Pochoir (color templates) on Paper (Cahiers d'Art magazine Nº4-5) 12.5 x 9.7 in. (31.5 x 24.5 cm.) Stain, unframed...

Original vintage travel poster for the Royal Town of Sutton Coldfield Sutton Park featuring stunning artwork by Michael Reilly (b.1898) depicting a couple enjoying a walk on a hill past trees in the park with a calm reflective lake and fields in the distance, the stylised title text and information below - Over 2500 acres of open space Gorse Heather Woods Moorland Lakes Boating fishing bathing & golf - with the distances indicated on the side. Dating back to the 9th century Sutton...

Medium: original lithograph. This impression was printed in 1939 for the art revue XXe Siecle (issue number 5-6) and published by San Lazzaro. A later edition was also published by XXe Siecle in 1959, but this is the original, first edition Max Ernst lithograph...

This is an original poster printed in lithography by the famous poster artist Leonetto Cappiello. Leonetto Cappiello was an Italian and French poster ar...

James Allen, 'Spiderboy', 1937, etching, edition 40, Ryan 86. Signed in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impression, on cream laid paper, with full margins (1 1/4 to 2 7/8 inches). A s...

Original vintage travel advertising poster for the World Fair event held in New York at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park from 30 April 1939 to 31 October 1940. Great Art Deco design by J...

Pablo Ruiz Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973) 'Sueño y mentira de Franco I', 1937 aquatint, etching on paper 15.2 x 22.4 in. (38.5 x 56.7 cm.) Editio...

James Allen, 'The Connectors', 1934, etching, edition not stated, Ryan 66. Signed in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impression, on handmade, cream laid paper, with margins (1/2 to 1...

Original travel poster: Visitate l'Esposizione Coloniale A smiling dusky maiden who looks just like Josephine Baker, pushes aside a blue curtain to reveal the splendors of her nat...

Original vintage travel poster for Megeve issued by the state owned French National Railways (SNCF Societe Nationale des Chemins de Fer Francais; founded 1938) featuring a view of tr...

Original vintage cruise travel poster advertising Cunard The Connecting Link Europe America featuring a great design depicting a Cunard Line ocean liner...

Original vintage ski travel poster - Alsace and Lorraine Railways Winter Sports in the Vosges The Munster Walley and The Hohneck - featuring...

Georges Braque (1882-1963) Hesiod's theogony : Artémis Original etching, 1932 Hand signed in pencil Numbered /50 copies On Hollande vellum size 49 x 38.5 cm (c. 19 x 15 in) Publishe...

Medium: stencil print on sandpaper (after the painting). At the height of his period of creative experimentation during the 1930's, Miro executed an abstract painting on sandpaper. ...

Georges Braque (1882-1963) Hesiod's theogony : Gaia & Ouranos Original etching, 1932 Hand signed in pencil Numbered /50 copies On Hollande vellum size 49 x 38.5 cm (c. 19 x 15 in) P...