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Here’s some leftover Arkansas. A motel sign in Judsonia, still standing, courtesy of the Ghost Signs Facebook page and Dale Brown.

#ghost sign #Arkansas #motel #derelict #signage #handpainted #signwriting

In the pub with Imre Hofbauer

The Other London by Imre Hofbauer was published in 1948 and presents a rather bleak picture of post-war London. He started his researches in the pub, and these atmospheric drawings followed.

#london #london art #1940s #pubs #imre hofbauer

Doreen Fletcher continues to produce excellent urban art. This is from her new show, Corners, opening at the Townhouse gallery, Spitalfields, next week.

#doreen fletcher #london art #urban art #townhouse #yellow house

London Transport cover stars, 14

That's June Ellenden "collecting sheets of tickets for wiring" as they come off the rotary printing machine at the London Transport Tram and Trolleybus Printing Works in Brixton. Mr C Curtis is operating the machine. He's 48 and has worked there since he was 14, showing every one of those years in his cheery demeanour.

#london #london transport #cover stars #tickets #printing #1940s

It was all happening in Challans, western France, in autumn 2015.

#challans #posters #advertising #duck racing

This Pimlico ghostsign is much photographed, but couldn’t resist as I was passing.

#ghost sign #pimlico #enamel sign #laundry #london #vintage advertising

‘Bombed Women And Searchlights’ by Clive Branson, 1940, is one of the remarkable artworks currently on show at Tate Britain in its Artists International Association display. Well worth a visit, even though it’s only a roomful of exhibits in the Archive section of the museum.

#artists international #Clive Branson #1940s #tate britain #exhibition #world war 2 #oil painting

Always interesting to find a new (to me) urban artist. Here are just a couple of the many paintings Bill Goffrier has made of the Wichita streetscape, both oils from 2017 of the Orpheum Theatre, still a floruishing arts centre.

#bill goffrier #urban art #streetscapes #orpheum #wichita #theatres #signage #architecture

Ruskin Spear’s atmospheric c.1950 oil painting ‘Bus Stop’ sold at auction this week for £4,445.

#ruskin spear #london #london art #1950s #streetscapes #bus stop

Here’s a good ghostsign, from Fort Edward, NY.

#ghost sign #signage #advertising #hand painted #lettering #mail pouch #fort Edward

Who doesn’t like a motel sign? Good article on 100 years of motels in the New York Times, featuring the photography of Carol Highsmith, above.

In 1925, the first motel opened on a California highway, ushering in a new era of convenience and comfort for a nation falling in love with

#motel #neon #signage #signs #motels #road trip

The excellent London-based urban landscape artist Marie Lenclos has a new show opening next week at the Art Friend Gallery in Columbia Road, Bethnal Green. Here are a few example of her earlier work.

#marie lenclos #london #urban art #london artist #streetscapes

Three ghostsigns and some restaurant neon from Watertown in New York state. Despite its brightness I don’t think the Gold Medal ad has been repainted. And I do like the confidence of its “Eventually… why not now?” slogan.

#ghost sign #advertising #vintage #new york #neon #watertown