Voyager... Going the Distance
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Object Details
- Manufacturer
- Teledyne Continental Motors (Mobile, Alabama)
- Physical Description
- Voyager . . .going the distance. Color, offset photolithograph print promoting Teledyne Motors depicts the Voyager in flight over a dark ocean with a light reflection. A blue, white and red border surrounds the image. In the blue border at bottom right, an image of a motor. Full text: within the image at top left, "Voyager" in white script; at bottom right, ". . .going the distance" in white serif font. Within the blue border at bottom, a white logo next to "TELEDYNE CONTINENTAL MOTORS "Pioneers in Aviation"" in a white font. Below the image of the motor, "TELEDYNE INDUSTRIES, INC. 1987" in small black font.
- 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
- COPYRIGHT TELEDYNE INDUSTRIES INC., 1987
- 1986
- Inventory Number
- A19900781000
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- ART-Posters, Original Art Quality
- Medium
- Poster, Commemorative
- Dimensions
- 2-D - Unframed (H x W): 61 x 45.7cm (24 x 18 in.)
- Country of Origin
- United States of America
- See more items in
- National Air and Space Museum Collection
- National Air and Space Museum
- Record ID
- nasm_A19900781000
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv96131d527-d35a-4057-aa62-ab99655a7150
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