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Exhibition - Posters Executed Under the Federal Art Project. Vintage poster promoting a public event at the Federal Art Gallery in New York City - 1939.

Hedy Lamarr

David Hockney (British, 1937-2026), Santa Monica Boulevard, 1978. Acrylic on canvas, 61.6 x 91.8 cm.

Elli Souyioultzoglou-Seraidari • Elizaveta Nicolska at the Acropolis, 1929

America’s roads to victory are boulevards of steel and stamina. Ad illustration detail for The Milwaukee Road. Russ Porter, artist - 1943.

Edouard Vuillard, The Two Sunshades, 1902

/ Wayne Miller, Blues at the Maxwell Street Flea Market. USA, Illinois Chicago, 1947.

CHARLIE PARKER, JAZZ

R. Crumb

Simplicity Pattern #4633

Persepolis (2007)

Twiggy for Biba Makeup by Justin de Villeneuve, 1972.

June 30, 1925 Miss Dorothy Brautigan of the short-lived National American Ballet, photographed probably at Rock Creek Park. She was only fourteen here. Dorothy moved to New York City and worked in the Ziegfeld Follies. From America in the 1920s, FB.

Arguably the best posters to appear during Hollywood’s golden era are by Eric Rohman for the Swedish market. This is the first of several posts of them.