Vintage Travel Posters

Travel posters are an ever-popular aspect of graphic design. I thought I would feature a broad spectrum of posters from the first half of the C20th, the golden age of the travel poster probably being associated with the 1920s and 1930s with posters by artists like Roger Broders, featuring sunny Mediterranean scenes.

This is part 4 of an 8 - part post on vintage travel posters. For earlier works see parts 1 - 3 also.

1938c Pennsylvania

1938c Rural Pennsylvania poster by Katherine Milhouse

1938c See America

1938c Winter in New York State

1939 Beautiful Sea Cliff

1939 Iran. Kuwait Airways poster by Alain Gauthier

1939 Normandie. French Line poster by Hubert Herkomer

1939c Great Barrier Reef, Australia poster by Percival Albert Trompf

1939c Great Barrier Reef, Australia poster by Lambert

1939c Visit Historic Ephrata, Pennsylvania

Peter Maxwell Ewart
Peter Maxwell Ewart (1918 - 2001) was a Canadian painter. Born in Kisbey, Saskatchewan, his family moved to Montreal in 1920 where he was educated. In 1938 he attended the Commercial Illustration Studio of New York City. On returning to Montreal in 1939 Ewart sold his first work to the Exhibits Branch of the Canadian Pacific Railway who commissioned him to produce a ski poster in 1939. In the next two decades he completed 24 posters for CPR and Canadian Pacific Airlines.

1940 Winter Sports. Canadian Pacific Canadian Pacific Across Canada poster by Peter Maxwell Ewart

1941 Canadian Rockies. Canadian Pacific poster by Peter Maxwell Ewart

1942 Canadian Pacific Across Canada poster by Peter Maxwell Ewart

1952 Canadian Pacific poster by Peter Maxwell Ewart

Banff. Canadian Pacific poster by Peter Maxwell Ewart

Canada For Big Game poster by Peter Maxwell Ewart

Canadian Pacific Across Canada poster by Peter Maxwell Ewart

Cruise the Great Lakes. Canadian Pacific poster by Peter Maxwell Ewart

Digby Pines, Nova Scotia poster by Peter Maxwell Ewart

Québec. Canadian Pacific Hotel Canadian Pacific Across Canada poster by Peter Maxwell Ewart

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1945c Martha's Vineyard. New Haven Railroad poster by Ben Nason

1946 Air France. Amérique du Nord poster by Guy Arnoux

1946 Orient. Air France poster by Lucien Boucher

Bernard Villemot

Bernard Villemot (1911 - 1989) was a French graphic artist known primarily for his iconic advertising images for Orangina, Bally shoes, Perrier, and Air France. Between 1932-34 he studied in Paris with artist Paul Colin, who was considered a master of Art Deco. In 1945-46 Villemot did posters for the Red Cross. In the late 1940s he began his famous series of travel posters for Air France.