b'157980 101 x 63cm. Linen-backed.VICTORIAN RAILWAYS TRAVEL POSTER Text continues Victorian Railways Australia. Poster no. 165. MORNINGTON & MOUNT MARTHA For Winter Sunshine.Take a Kodak.Victoria, Australia Estonian born, Sellheim studied architecture in Berlin, Munich No fog - no frost! and Gratz before travelling to London in the 1920s. He migrated c1930s colour process lithograph, to Australia arriving in Fremantle in January 1926. After a year 101 x 63cm. Linen-backed. of labouring work in rural WA he gained employment as a site Text includes Victorian Railways Australia Poster No. 172. architect at the University of Western Australia. In 1930 Sellheim Take a Kodak. moved to Melbourne where he set up his own architectural $1,2001,500practice and began designing and exhibiting posters. His designs were unusual for the times. With bold use of photomontage, 981 drawings and the juxtaposition of hand-lettering and commercial type text they were at the cutting edge of graphic design. In [VICTORIAN CENTENARY 1934] 1939 he was commissioned to decorate the Government tourist Florence Tatham MELLBLOM Bureau in Melbourne, producing a large scale mural using flat (Australian, 1900 - 1983) colour and photomontage. This work was awarded the 1939 Visit PORTLAND The First Victorian Settlement Sulman Prize.during the Centenary Celebrations from 15th to 23rdFrom the 1940s Sellheim created posters for Qantas Empire November 1934 Airways, including the distinctive flying kangaroo logo. He was 1934 colour lithograph, signed F. Mellblom in image lower left, also noted for his interest in Aboriginal art and he incorporated 63.5 x 101.5cm. Linen-backed. Aboriginal-derived motifs frequently in his work.Text continues in lower margin: During WWII Sellheim was classified by Australian authorities as Arbuckle, Waddell Pty Ltd Print, Melb. an enemy alien and was sent to an internment camp in Victoria Mellblom (nee Henry) was a painter, naturalist and photographer.in 1943. After intervention from his family he was released to do She was born at Portland, Victoria, and studied art in Ballarat.military work. Ironically he was sent to work on the conversion She was a talented etcher from childhood, and joined theof metric to imperial measurements of armaments. Sellheims Portland Camera club. She also produced many watercolourbeach inspired travel posters are important examples of how paintings of the historic places of Portland. She was marriedbeach culture archetypes have been adopted by Australian (1932) to Karl Enoch Mellblom. Government departments and agencies to market Australia as a $1,2001,500tourist and migrant destination.$2,0002,500 982Charles MEERE (London 1890Sydney, 1961) 9851788 . 1938 VICTORIAN RAILWAYS TRAVEL POSTER150 YEARS OF PROGRESS Gert SELLHEIMAUSTRALIA CELEBRATES (Estonia, Australian, 1901-1970).January 26 . April 25 1938 MT. BUFFALO National Park, Victoria, AustraliaLithographed and Printed by Hackett Offset Printing Company,c1939 colour process lithograph, signed in image lower left,Sydney & Melbourne. 101 x 64cm. Linen-backed.101 x 64cm; signed and dated 37 in the plate. Text continues Victorian Railways Australia. Poster no. 180. The English-born Matthew Charles Meere first visited AustraliaTake a Kodak.in 1927 to work as a graphic designer. Having studied art in$1,2001,500 France and England and served in World War I, Meere pursued further study in design and mural painting at Londons Royal College of Art. He then emigrated to Australia with his second986wife in 1933 to continue his career as a designer in tandem withROWLAND HILDER (British, 19051993).his fine art practice. Come To Britain For GOLFTeaching drawing at East Sydney Technical College brought himc1948 colour lithograph, signed in image lower right,into contact with the next generation of young Australian artists76 x 50cm. Linen-backed.and by 1938, when he won the Sir John Sulman Prize for hisText continues By Rowland Hilder.piece Atalantas Eclipse, Meere was already well establishedPublished by the Travel Association of Great Britain and Northern on the local art scene. His poster for the 1938 Sydney Games,Ireland (Tourist Division of the British Tourist and Holidays Board) rarely seen on the market, brings over $5,000 in good condition. and printed in Great Britain$2,0003,000by W.S. Cowell Ltd, London & Ipswich.The British Tourist and Holidays Board was established in 1947983 to foster and develop the tourist, catering and holiday servicesThis was just in time for the 1948 Olympic Games in London.AUSTRALIAN ORANGES $1,2501,500 Sunbright and King Sol Orangesc1938 colour lithograph. Linen-backed.46 x 60cm. 987DEEP-COLOURED. JUICY.DELICIOUSLY SWEET circa 1950 Home Utility Electric Tools point of sale advertising The pick of the crop.fresh from Yanco. poster, real black and white photograph mounted on card,[Unknown artist and printer.] 90 x 64cm$600800$80120 984 988VICTORIAN RAILWAYS TRAVEL POSTER, MARTIN SHARP [1942 - 2013] Adelaide Festival 1982,Gert SELLHEIM, original poster, 150 x 87cm.(Estonia, Australia, 1901-1970). $200250 VISIT THE SEASIDE. Travel By Train,c1930s colour process lithograph, signed in image lower left,'