A poster for the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique, known throughout the world as the French Line, featuring their newest transatlantic liner the SS Normandie (1935). The artist, Montague Birrell Black, from Liverpool, England, was a renowned British artist, painter and illustrator. Black was extremely active as an lithographic artist between 1910 and 1936, and is best known for producing watercolor artworks to serve as the basis of lithographs for the White Star Line, the British Underground Group, and the four major British Railway Lines. Around 1910 a number of his paintings were registered at Stationers Hall for commercial use and are now at the Public Record Office at Kew. During World War Two he worked for the Toronto Star.
Born in Stockwell, London, England, on March 29, 1884, he identified his chosen profession as a “Lithographic Artist” as early as the age of seventeen. He was educated at Stockwell College, London.
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