England
by Henry George GawthornPower & Progress on the LNER LNER poster 1930.
Poster produced for the London & North Eastern Railway to advertise new technology on the company?s network. The poster shows a worker sitting at an electrical control board at the Whitemoor sidings. Artwork by Henry George Gawthorn (1879-1941), who started out as an architect but later turned to pictorial art. He wrote several books on poster design and publicity and produced posters for LNER. He often included a self-portrait in his posters, complete with pince-nez and a panama hat.
