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David Klein's TWA Posters (2018)


The illustrator and artist David Klein is best known today for his glorious posters for the Howard Hughes owned Trans World Airlines in the 1950s and 1960s. TWA at the time was one of the world’s most well known and admired airlines. It became the first airline to hire an African-American stewardess, the first to … Continue reading "David Klein’s Magnificent TWA Posters"

Klein's influential posters still look extraordinary to this day and "define the excitement and enthusiasm of the early years of post-war air travel." Soon after World War 2, during which he illustrated Army manuals, David Klein travelled to New York and lived in Brooklyn Heights, where he would stay for the next 60 years. In 1947, David Klein became an art director at Clifford Strohl Associates, a theatrical advertising agency, and started illustrating many of Broadway’s best-known shows of the period.

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