Walter Allner

Great Architecture for the Sixties – La Tourette by Le Corbusier

1962

A poster by Erik Nitsche advertising General Dynamics' exhibition "Dynamic America" held 1961 in the newly renovated General Dynamics Building (formerly the Time-Life Building) at the Rockefeller Plaza in New York where the company promoted its achievements. The background to this poster is GD's division Stromberg-Carlson, a telecommunications equipment and electronics manufacturing company, founded 1895 in Chicago and acquired 1955 by General Dynamics (resold 1982). The two Swedish Immigrants started to improve Graham Bell...

Original Vintage Poster depicting Piero Luigi Nervi's International Labor Exposition Hall in Turin, published 1962 by the magazine Architectural Forum to p...

Original Vintage Poster depicting Eero Saarinen's TWA Terminal, published 1962 by the magazine Architectural Forum to promote Modern Architecture – one of...

A poster by Erik Nitsche advertising General Dynamics' exhibition "Dynamic America" held 1961 at the Rockefeller Plaza in New York where the company promoted its achievements. The background to this poster is the launch 1897 of the "Holland", United States Navy's first submarine, by the John P. Holland Torpedo Boat Company, predecessor of Electric Boat...

Original Swiss Exhibition poster by Hermann Eidenbenz (lithograph, printed by Art. Institut Grafica in Basel) advertising a show of the Basel section ...

Original Vintage Poster in bright and crisp colors by the Dutch graphic design legend Wim Crouwel, advertising rather the museum's collection of works by...

Original vintage World War Two Home Front recycling poster - Bones Make Explosives Put Out All Bones For Salvage - featuring a great modernist graphic design by Reginald Mount (1906-...

Frank Lloyd Wright's Ennis House, Los Angeles - Lithograph on Paper Clean, modern lithograph of the Ennis House in Los Angeles by Frances Myers (American, 1936-2014). The Ennis House sits at the top of a small hill, cutting a strong line against a soft peach-colored sky. Wright's strong sense of balance is highlighted in this composition, with patterns and lines guiding the viewers eye in various directions around the piece. Numbered, titled, signed and dated along the bottom edge: 7/50 Ennis House - Los Angeles Frances Myers 1980 Paper size: 29.5"H x 38"W Print size: 24"H x 32"W Shipped rolled in a tube. Myers was born on April 16, 1936, in Racine, Wisconsin. She began her studies at the San Francisco Art Institute, but soon transferred to the University of Wisconsin–Madison where she earned a BS in 1962, and an MFA in 1965. Myers employed a variety of printmaking techniques in her career including "relief, photo-etching, and mixed media processes." Myers is best known for her prints depicting various buildings. She once said, “I don’t want to invent a building, I want to bring new life to a building.” Growing up in Racine, Myers was exposed to many of Frank Lloyd Wright's architectural works, and she paid tribute to this in her 1980 work The Frank Lloyd Wright Print...

An etching by Kiki Smith titled "Bat." Smith has used one of her animal/insect iconic figures for this etching on wove paper creating it close to life size and therefore causing the ...

A collage lithograph from her series Various Flying Creatures by Kiki Smith titled: "bat." Smith has used one of her animal/insect iconic figures fo...

A collage lithograph from her series Various Flying Creatures by Kiki Smith titled: "squirrel." Smith has used one of her animal/insect iconic figur...

A collage lithograph from her series Various Flying Creatures by Kiki Smith titled: "fly." Smith has used one of her animal/insect iconic figures for this glassine paper and wove pap...