Underground & Railway

The Boat Race — London Underground Poster, 1920

The Tube, sold as modern art you could ride.

Munich and Central Europe — LNER Poster, Ludwig Hohlwein, 1929

A German poster artist’s hand, hired by a British railway.

The Cornish Riviera — GWR Poster, Louis Burleigh Bruhl, 1928

The domestic seaside route, sold with the same confidence as the continental one.

Poster, The North Downs, London Underground

Kauffer flattens the North Downs into blocks of green and brown - modernism arriving on a London wall in 1915.

Poster, Winter Sales, for London Underground

Wind-blown shoppers flattened to blue, black and orange: Winter Sales are best reached by the Underground.

Poster, Godstone, London Underground

A Surrey quarry and its working men, cut into flat planes of colour for the 1915 Underground.

Poster, Oxhey Woods, London Underground

Rolling hills flattened into simplified bands of colour, lettered OXHEY WOODS - Kauffer's Underground debut, 1915.