United States
WPA — Federal Art Project
1935–1943
Public domain as U.S. government program work (Federal Art Project) regardless of year — the one lane that ignores the 1931 wall.
Visit The American Wing ↗The Atlas Proper
The Schools Registry
Every school this house knows, told honestly, both lanes at once: the ones we reproduce, rights cleared and named piece by piece — and the ones we only honor, in manner and influence, because the works themselves are still someone else’s to sell. The line between them is not taste. It is the calendar and the law, and we draw it in the open rather than let a customer discover it at checkout.
Reproduced here
Rights-cleared, gated by each poster’s own publication year. Every school below is sold in the lane reproduce — not both — because no Painted personalization pack exists for these national schools yet; that lane name would claim a product we don’t have.
United States
The American Golden Age — the Poster before 1931
1893–1930
American commercial, war, exhibition, and magazine posters published 1930 or earlier — the Great War recruiting sheets, the world’s-fair and circus posters, the illustrated-magazine cover. Clears under the pre-1931 rule, alongside (not inside) the WPA’s government-work lane.
Visit The American Wing ↗France
Belle Époque — the Affiche
1891–1900
Pre-1931 publication clears under the family’s U.S.-seller public-domain framework.
Visit The French Wing ↗Japan
Government Railways & Liner Posters
1910–1930
Pre-1931 publication clears under the family’s U.S.-seller public-domain framework.
Visit The Japanese Wing ↗USSR
Soviet Constructivism
1919–1929
Pre-1931 publication clears under the family’s U.S.-seller framework; shown as design history the wing does not celebrate the regime.
Visit The Soviet Wing ↗Poland
Young Poland (Młoda Polska)
1897–1930
Pre-1931 publication clears under the family’s U.S.-seller framework. Ancestor of the postwar Polish School (below), which remains style-only.
Visit The Polish Wing ↗Egypt
Egypt in the Age of Travel
1900–1930
Pre-1931 material clears now; the celebrated 1930s golden age is watch-listed and unlocks year by year under the 95-year rule, beginning January 2027.
Visit The Egyptian Wing ↗Austria
Vienna Secession
1897–1918
Pre-1931 publication clears under the family’s U.S.-seller public-domain framework.
Visit The Shallow Shelf ↗Italy
The Ricordi House
1895–1930
Pre-1931 publication clears under the family’s framework; only pre-1931 Dudovich is included.
Visit The Shallow Shelf ↗Britain
Underground & Railway Posters
1908–1930
Pre-1931 publication clears under the family’s framework; the TfL roundel is a live trademark, flagged per piece.
Visit The Shallow Shelf ↗Germany
The Bauhaus
1919–1930
Pre-1931 publication clears under the family’s U.S.-seller public-domain framework.
Visit The Shallow Shelf ↗Germany & Austria
Plakat — the Object Poster
1905–1930
German and Austrian commercial poster art before 1931 — the Sachplakat "object poster" (Hohlwein, Bernhard), Munich and Berlin advertising, and the Wiener Werkstätte’s commercial work. Pre-1931 publication clears under the family’s U.S.-seller framework.
Visit The Shallow Shelf ↗Mexico
Posada — Broadsides & Calaveras
1888–1913
José Guadalupe Posada died in 1913 — his broadsides clear well within the pre-1931 rule.
Visit The Shallow Shelf ↗China
Shanghai Yuefenpai — the Calendar Poster
1914–1930
Pre-1931 material clears now; the celebrated 1930s Zhiying Studio era is watch-listed, unlocking annually from January 2027.
Visit The Chinese Wing ↗Honored, not reproduced (style-only)
These schools are editorial only — never a shop item. The works are still in copyright; we name the school, tell its history, and stop there. Painted may honor the manner in its own ateliers, but no linked style pack has shipped yet, so we don’t point you toward one that doesn’t exist.
Poland
Style-onlyThe Polish School (postwar poster)
1945–1989
Still in copyright (life+70, URAA-restored) — the works are barred, the manner is free. Descends from Young Poland, sold in the Polish Wing; honored in the Painted ateliers, never reproduced here.
Honored in the Painted ateliers — no linked style pack has shipped yet.
See its ancestor in The Polish Wing ↗Switzerland
Style-onlySwiss International (Typographic) Style
1950–1970
Mid-20th-century designers’ individual works remain in copyright (life+70) — the manner is free to honor, the works are not for sale here.
Honored in the Painted ateliers — no linked style pack has shipped yet.
Italy
Style-onlyMid-Century Italian Film Posters
1945–1970
Post-1930 work remains in copyright under life+70/URAA — style-only, not reproduced.
Honored in the Painted ateliers — no linked style pack has shipped yet.
Japan
Style-only1960s Japanese Psychedelia
1965–1975
1960s work is deep in copyright — style-only, not reproduced.
Honored in the Painted ateliers — no linked style pack has shipped yet.