Shell Is Always First Exhibitions The version of the ensemble

The version of the ensemble promoted here also features the jazz drummer Jack Parnell

More examples of Royal Academy Summer Exhibition posters can be seen here

Jasper Johns Drawings

This poster depicts the medieval Bargate in Southampton

Burningham began his career as a poster designer in the early sixties

Shell Is Always First Exhibitions The version of the ensembleOriginal, antique, poster: Shell Is Always First, designed by Edward McKnight Kauffer, 1935. Probably the greatest poster designer working in interwar Britain, Kauffer produced several outstanding designs for Shell Oil in the 1930s. The posters were displayed on the side of Shell lorries as part of a highly regarded publicity campaign. This copy belonged to the leading post war graphic designer Abram Games (more information here). A higher resolution