Travel to the Theatre

Details

Herbert Ashwin Budd, R.O.I., (1881-1950)
Travel to the Theatre
signed 'H.A. Budd' (lower right)
oil on canvas
44 x 34 in. (111.8 x 86.5 cm.)

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Lot Essay

Herbert Ashwin Budd was an artist, designer and teacher; he joined the Royal Institute of Oil Painters in 1921.
This work is an original design executed in oil for Budd's 1930 poster 'Travel Underground to the Theatres' issued by Underground Electric Railways Company of London (fig. 1). Budd continued to design posters for London Transport throughout the 1930s.

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