Shrinking Travel Time, American Overseas Airlines
1948 · Lithograph
24 x 37 3/4" (61 x 95.9 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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George Him
Artist
Geometric Abstraction
Representation
None documented
4
Institutional Exhibitions
15
Works in Collection
19
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Travel Posters
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1957
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New Posters from 16 Countries
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1949
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Modern Art in Your Life
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1949
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Posters
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1944
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George Him was a British graphic designer and illustrator whose modernist vocabulary combined geometric abstraction with legible letterforms across poster design and book illustration. Active from the 1930s through the postwar period, he synthesized influences from continental European avant-garde movements into a distinctive commercial practice. Working primarily in lithography, Him developed a formal language that balanced abstraction with functional clarity, establishing a significant presence in mid-twentieth-century British graphic design.
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