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Antikbar One sheet Pan Am vintage travel poster, advertising
Brazil Carnival in Rio for Pan American World Airways, was created by the artist William Linzee Prescott around the late 1950s or 1960s.
Poster Details
Airline: Pan American World Airways (Pan Am)
Slogan: The poster features Pan Am's famous, long-standing slogan: "World's Most Experienced Airline".
Artist: The whimsical illustration is the work of William Linzee Prescott (1917-1981), an artist and WWII veteran who also worked as a civilian combat artist in Vietnam in 1967.
Artwork Description: The artwork uses a vibrant, cartoon-like style to capture the festivity of the Rio Carnival. It depicts a bustling carnival scene above, and a stylized man in uniform next to a bull in the foreground, with a humorous quote attributed to the man: "¡Caracoles, Senhores! Another Pan American plane arrives! They bring so many visitors I fear Rio will sink into the sea from their weight!". |
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