Los Tigres Voladores
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Object Details
- Artist
- Vidal
- Physical Description
- LOS TIGRES VOLADORES. Framed multicolor illustrated print advertising the movie Los Tigres Voladores. Two bombers release bombs in a blue sky with white clouds. At lower right, a couple kisses, the woman wearing a nurse's attire and the man wearing a pith helmet. Full text: at center in yellow bubble lettering "LOS TIGRES VOLADORES," (Flying Tigers) "con JOHN WAYNE, ANNA LEE - JOHN CARROLL" in white sans-serif type at lower left. At upper left, "Republic Pictures Presenta" in yellow script and sans-serif type. Artist signature at lower left.
- Summary
- Fly Now: The National Air and Space Museum Poster Collection
- Throughout their history, posters have been a significant means of mass communication, often with striking visual effect. Wendy Wick Reaves, the Smithsonian Portrait Gallery Curator of Prints and Drawings, comments that "sometimes a pictorial poster is a decorative masterpiece-something I can't walk by without a jolt of aesthetic pleasure. Another might strike me as extremely clever advertising … But collectively, these 'pictures of persuasion,' as we might call them, offer a wealth of art, history, design, and popular culture for us to understand. The poster is a familiar part of our world, and we intuitively understand its role as propaganda, promotion, announcement, or advertisement."
- Reaves' observations are especially relevant for the impressive array of aviation posters in the National Air and Space Museum's 1300+ artifact collection. Quite possibly the largest publicly-held collection of its kind in the United States, the National Air and Space Museum's posters focus primarily on advertising for aviation-related products and activities. Among other areas, the collection includes 19th-century ballooning exhibition posters, early 20th-century airplane exhibition and meet posters, and twentieth-century airline advertisements.
- The posters in the collection represent printing technologies that include original lithography, silkscreen, photolithography, and computer-generated imagery. The collection is significant both for its aesthetic value and because it is a unique representation of the cultural, commercial and military history of aviation. The collection represents an intense interest in flight, both public and private, during a significant period of its technological and social development.
- Credit Line
- Bequest of Melvin Buchner.
- circa 1942
- Inventory Number
- A20000553000
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- ART-Posters, Original Art Quality
- Medium
- Poster, Advertising, Movie
- Dimensions
- 2-D - In Frame (H x W x D): 91.4 x 66 x 2.5cm (36 x 26 x 1 in.)
- Country of Origin
- Mexico
- See more items in
- National Air and Space Museum Collection
- National Air and Space Museum
- Record ID
- nasm_A20000553000
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv9c95bbd7b-23c5-4a8c-8303-9fbb815d92e3
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