[Posters] Gee, Peter American Airlines 747 Astroliner

No place, (1970). Original color silkscreen poster, 30 x 39 3/4 in. (76 x 101 cm); mounted to linen, 33 1/2 x 43 1/4 in. (83 x 110 cm). Scattered creasing in top edges and along margins.

"In January of 1970, a few weeks prior to American Airlines' first Boeing 747 coast-to-coast service, British-born pop artist and real estate developer Peter Gee (1932-2005) completed this introductory poster for the new Boeing 747 that American Airlines called Astroliner. One of the most powerful airline advertising posters of its time, it corresponds with the size and strength of the newly introduced Boeing 747, then the largest commercial airliner in the world by far. The photograph used by Peter Gee to create this poster was part of a series of photos made while American's first Boeing 747 was being tested in the Puget Sound area in late 1969. The original poster is silkscreen printed on silver foil Mylar paper. It is part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York." (M.C Huhne, Airline Visual Identity, p. 150).

One of the rarest and most visually striking mid-century aviation posters.