Art Nouveau posters and graphic arts flourished and became an important vehicle of the style, thanks to the new technologies of color lithography and color printing, which allowed the creation of and distribution of the style to a vast audience in Europe, the United States and beyond. Art was no longer confined to art galleries, but could be seen on walls and illustrated magazines. The Art Nouveau posters and illustrations almost always feature women, representing glamor, beauty and modernity. Images of men are extremely rare. Posters and illustrations are highly stylized. approaching two dimensions, and frequently are filled with flowers and other vegetal decoration. The major artists who created work in this domain included Aubrey Beardsley in Britain, The Czech Alphonse Mucha and Eugène Grasset, Jules Chéret, Georges de Feure and the painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec in France, Koloman Moser in Vienna, and Will H. Bradley in the United States. Art Nouveau poster designers, especially in the earlier years, had to work with the early technology of lithography, which in early versions limited the number of colors they could use. They are also very much influenced by Japanese prints, especially those of Hiroshige, with their flat planes and two dimensions, which were being popularized expositions in Paris during this period. The Geo-Archaeological Information Applications Lab

Posters You Can Download

Here are a number of poster collages of various subjects that you can download. Each is 300 dpi, and sized to 24 by 36 inches (landscape) or 36 by 24 (portrait). The files can be sent directly to a large format printer so you can make your own hard copy on whatever media you wish. I've printed a number of them on "Gator Board". Click the thumbnail image to see a larger version, or press the "Download" link to get the full sized poster.

David Roberts:

David Roberts RA (24 October 1796 - 25 November 1864) was a Scottish architect and painter. He is especially known for a prolific series of detailed lithograph prints of Egypt and the Near East that he produced from sketches he made during long tours of the region (1838-1840). This group includes posters in landscape and portrait format, with Robets' images from Egypt/Numbia and the southern Levant

Egypt/Nubia, landscape format:


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Southern Levant, landscape format:


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Art Nouveau:

Art Nouveau posters and graphic arts flourished and became an important vehicle of the style, thanks to the new technologies of color lithography and color printing, which allowed the creation of and distribution of the style to a vast audience in Europe, the United States and beyond. Art was no longer confined to art galleries, but could be seen on walls and illustrated magazines. The Art Nouveau posters and illustrations almost always feature women, representing glamor, beauty and modernity. Images of men are extremely rare. Posters and illustrations are highly stylized. approaching two dimensions, and frequently are filled with flowers and other vegetal decoration. These are mostly from French lithographers, from the fin de siècle.

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Vintage Travel Posters

These are a collection of classic travel posters from the 1890s through the 1960s, but mostly from the 1920s and 30s.

Africa, landscape format:


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Africa, portrait format:


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Circum Mediterranean, landscape format:


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Circum Mediterranean, portrait format:


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Egypt, landscape format:


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Egypt, portrait format:


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Greece, landscape format:


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Greece, portrait format:


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India, landscape format:


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India, portrait format:


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Air India Maharaja Series, landscape format:


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Air India Maharaja Series, portrait format:


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Ireland, landscape format:


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Ireland, portrait format:


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Italy, landscape format:


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Italy, portrait format:


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Middle East, landscape format:


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Middle East, portrait format:


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US National Parks, landscape format:


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Spain, landscape format:


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Spain, portrait format:


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Turkey, landscape format:


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USSR, landscape format:


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Vintage Travel Postcards

These are collections of classic postcards from the 1930s through the 1960s.

The Great American Road Trip
Chicago to LA on Route 66, landscape format:


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Travel the Mother Road
Chicago to LA on Route 66, portrait format:


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Planetary Travel Posters

These are a collection of travel posters that envision a lively, retro tourist industry centrered on real and imagined destinations. The exoplanet posters were mostly designed by NASA, others I found on the internet, and I've made up a few.

Space Tourism I, landscape format:


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Space Tourism II, landscape format:


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Space Tourism III, portrait format:


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Space Tourism IV, portrait format:


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Pulp Sci-Fi Covers

Here are a group of collages made up of classic science fiction pulp magazine covers from the 1930s through 1950s.

Sci-Fi Pulp I, landscape format:


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Doc Savage I, landscape format:


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Sci-Fi Pulp II, portrait format:


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Sci-Fi Pulp III, portrait format:


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DC Comics, landscape format:


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WW II Propaganda Posters

These are American and British propaganda posters for the homefront, from the WW II era.

WW II Propaganda, landscape format:


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WW II Propaganda 1, portrait format:


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WW II Propaganda 2, portrait format:


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Star Wars and Middle Earth

There are a lot of Star Wars propaganda posters on the internet, pro-rebellion and pro-empire. The Middle Earth posters are a mix of travel posters from the internet and some I've made by adding text to images from the web.

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