Adolph Treidler

Adolph Treidler (1886–1973) was one of the most successful American poster artists and illustrators of the twentieth century, with accounts including Pierce-Arrow and the French Line. During the Second World War he drew posters for the Women Ordnance Workers, and he served as president of the Artists’ Guild in 1936–37.

The two posters collected here bookend his travel work. The 1934 lithograph for the New York Central Lines, printed by Latham Litho, shows the Statue of Liberty floodlit over the harbour under the slogan “New York, The Wonder City of the World” — a nocturne selling arrival. Bermuda in Oleander Time (1952), painted for the Bermuda Islands Department of Tourism and Trade Development, sells the opposite: daylight, escape, and the weeks when the oleanders bloom, its harbour framed by pink blossom and the island’s white stepped limestone roofs.

The works

Read the story: Bermuda in Oleander Time: Adolph Treidler's Island Poster

Read the story: The Wonder City at Night: Treidler's New York Central Poster

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