Shell Is Always First Exhibitions The version of the ensemble

The version of the ensemble promoted here also features the jazz drummer Jack Parnell

More examples of Royal Academy Summer Exhibition posters can be seen here

poster mounted within conservation mount board

with the lithograph printing undertaken by the Baynard Press

held at the Kunstnernes Hus

Shell Is Always First Exhibitions The version of the ensembleOriginal, antique, poster: Shell Is Always First, designed by Edward McKnight Kauffer, 1935. Probably the greatest poster designer working in interwar Britain, Kauffer produced several outstanding designs for Shell Oil in the 1930s. The posters were displayed on the side of Shell lorries as part of a highly regarded publicity campaign. This copy belonged to the leading post war graphic designer Abram Games (more information here). A higher resolution