British post war posters and graphics.
Earlier this week, I made it down to London to take a look at the British Murals and Decorative Painting exhibition, as mentioned a few weeks ago. I still love this. Although I have faced up to the fact that we have neither the funds nor a wall space large enough. Mind you, it was […]
I could quite happily just give you this single picture and consider it a complete post, because it’s just fantastic What I’m showing you here is a three and half metre long mural by Barbara Jones called ‘Out in the Hall’ from 1962. I have no idea what it was painted for – although given […]
I know I mentioned it in passing, but what with one thing and another, the 1950s Modern book that I wrote for Shire hasn’t really had much of an outing on here, despite having hit the shops before Christmas. You can buy it on Amazon if you like, but the nice people at Shire have […]
In the last post I only managed to get through about half the auctions that are out there so today for your entertainment and edification, here is part two. But first, a small digression. Lest people think I have been victimising Christies over their high prices, I have to report that the problem is much […]
Do you remember I said recently that we weren’t buying anything because we needed carpets and curtains? It turns out that there are exceptions to this. Which is not a poster but the catalogue for the Black Eyes and Lemonade exhibition at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in 1951, curated, of course, by Barbara Jones. Now […]
So much has actually arrived here at Quad Royal over the last few weeks that I couldn’t fit it all into one post. Which means that it’s back to the mailbox again today. At the start of the summer I posted about Stan Krol, mostly along the lines of how little I knew about him. […]