1926 London Underground Poster - Horace Taylor
"Summer Sales by Underground" London Underground Poster 1926.
Designed by Horace Taylor (1881-1934). Printed by Vincent Brooks Day & Son for Underground Electric Railway Company. Colour lithograph. Double Royal size - 101cm x63cm. Linen-Backed. Print Code 731.1000.26.5.26. Condition: Excellent.
This beautiful and vibrant Art Deco London Underground poster was designed by Horace Taylor, graduate of the Royal Academy of Art and who worked almost exclusively as a commercial artist. Although Taylor only produced 4 posters for the Underground Electric Railway Company, they are considered some of the most striking and iconic Underground posters ever produced.
In the 1920s, there was a big push from the UERL Publicity Department to promote the Underground as a means of accessing leisure pursuits. Many posters, therefore, used the excitement of the sales to target middle-class suburban women in pursuit of the latest trends.
This poster is highly aspiration and evocative, presenting beautiful young women dressed in the latest fashion and fingering through fabric, trying on beautiful dresses and searching through sales piles in the pursuit of a bargain.
This along with other stylish posters commissioned by Frank Pick of the LU Publicity Department complimented the new art deco station designs being developed by architect Charles Holden.
"Summer Sales by Underground" London Underground Poster 1926.
Designed by Horace Taylor (1881-1934). Printed by Vincent Brooks Day & Son for Underground Electric Railway Company. Colour lithograph. Double Royal size - 101cm x63cm. Linen-Backed. Print Code 731.1000.26.5.26. Condition: Excellent.
This beautiful and vibrant Art Deco London Underground poster was designed by Horace Taylor, graduate of the Royal Academy of Art and who worked almost exclusively as a commercial artist. Although Taylor only produced 4 posters for the Underground Electric Railway Company, they are considered some of the most striking and iconic Underground posters ever produced.
In the 1920s, there was a big push from the UERL Publicity Department to promote the Underground as a means of accessing leisure pursuits. Many posters, therefore, used the excitement of the sales to target middle-class suburban women in pursuit of the latest trends.
This poster is highly aspiration and evocative, presenting beautiful young women dressed in the latest fashion and fingering through fabric, trying on beautiful dresses and searching through sales piles in the pursuit of a bargain.
This along with other stylish posters commissioned by Frank Pick of the LU Publicity Department complimented the new art deco station designs being developed by architect Charles Holden.
"Summer Sales by Underground" London Underground Poster 1926.
Designed by Horace Taylor (1881-1934). Printed by Vincent Brooks Day & Son for Underground Electric Railway Company. Colour lithograph. Double Royal size - 101cm x63cm. Linen-Backed. Print Code 731.1000.26.5.26. Condition: Excellent.
This beautiful and vibrant Art Deco London Underground poster was designed by Horace Taylor, graduate of the Royal Academy of Art and who worked almost exclusively as a commercial artist. Although Taylor only produced 4 posters for the Underground Electric Railway Company, they are considered some of the most striking and iconic Underground posters ever produced.
In the 1920s, there was a big push from the UERL Publicity Department to promote the Underground as a means of accessing leisure pursuits. Many posters, therefore, used the excitement of the sales to target middle-class suburban women in pursuit of the latest trends.
This poster is highly aspiration and evocative, presenting beautiful young women dressed in the latest fashion and fingering through fabric, trying on beautiful dresses and searching through sales piles in the pursuit of a bargain.
This along with other stylish posters commissioned by Frank Pick of the LU Publicity Department complimented the new art deco station designs being developed by architect Charles Holden.
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