Iona
Royal Quad 40 x 50 This is an original 1928 vintage railway travel poster titled Iona, created by the prominent British artist and illustrator Norman Wilkinson. Poster Details Subject: Iona Abbey (frequently referred to as Iona Cathedral), located on the Isle of Iona in the Inner Hebrides off the western coast of Scotland.Commissioned By: The London Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) company to promote rail and steamship tourism to Scotland. Printer: Printed in England by McCorquodale & Co. Ltd., London.Style: Art Deco with a simplified, block-color layout optimized for the flat lithographic printing techniques of the interwar era.About the Artist Norman Wilkinson (1878–1971) was a highly influential marine painter and commercial artist. He revolutionized railway advertising in the early 20th century by shifting station posters away from cluttered, multi-vignette advertisements toward bold, singular, and highly artistic landscape vistas. Historically, Wilkinson is also celebrated as the inventor of "dazzle camouflage"—a system of high-contrast geometric shapes painted on naval vessels during World War I to confuse enemy submarine rangefinders.Text in the Poster The text block beneath the artwork describes the deep history of the island, reading:"Iona, the burial place of Kings, has memories which stretch back over a thousand years, and the quiet beauty of the ancient cathedral has a simplicity which age has hallowed. Here lies Columba, Saint and Missionary from Ireland; here lie forty-eight Scottish Kings. At one time more than three hundred memorial crosses stood on Iona, but nearly all have vanished. Iona is indeed an island of sacred soil, strangely beautiful in its setting of blue waters that ebb and flow over silver sands."
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