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World Airways

The WPA artist and art deco designer Vladimir Yoffe created this smart and modern machine age commercial illustration as advertising for Pan Am World Airways. The imagery shows a dizzying map of the earth highlighted by the routes the early commercial airline offered. Today, the  Russian/American artist is best remembered for his work for the New Deal […]

World Airways

Artist: Vladimir Yoffe

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, advertising, art deco, aviation, Golden Age, machine age, mid-century modern, modernist, New Deal Federal Arts Project, Pan Am Airlines, poster design, Russian Artist, Vladimir Yoffe, World Airways, WPA
Added to Gallery: March 2, 2016

 

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