Finally, a poster by a woman that is not in fact in Poster Girls. Post Office Underground Mail Train 1937 by Lili Réthi is an original GPO poster in the Onslows Sale on July 13th. To all the people who come in to the shop asking if our posters are for sale – now is your chance: there are so many amazing posters available to buy which, framed, would be a marvellous present for anyone. We are very tempted by the Lili Réthi (lot 135, here) although it is one of the more expensive of the 173 lots (and there is another Lili Rethi here). Yet: how glorious it would look in the shop window… It’s hard to leave posters behind: next week’s Persephone Post has to be five posters for sale at Onslows…

The London Transport Museum has it vast collection of posters online and many happy hours could be spend looking at them. For example, today’s poster by Mary Adshead, Country Joys on London’s Underground 1927, can be found on their site here. (This poster is also a tribute to the painting by Mary Adshead that was reproduced in the Sunday Times last Sunday to accompany the lead review of Young Anne: Portrait of Daphne Charlton 1935 was the perfect accompaniment to ‘young Anne’.)

Victoria Embankment 1926 by Monica Rawlins is in the Poster Girls book and also in the V & A.

London’s Open Air, no. 3 The Wild Flowers, a 1948 poster by Nora Kay was, like yesterday’s poster, a ‘pair poster’ – two designed to hang next to each other, one displaying an image and the other displaying text. This pair poster was included in an exhibition of the best new international posters at the Museum of Modern Art in  New York in 1949

The Post featured five London Transport posters by women from October 16th-20th last year but we cannot resist returning to Poster Girls at the London Transport Museum because we have now bought the book: there are so many beautiful and inspirational posters that we did not have time to look at properly before. (The exhibition is on until January.) Today: Literary London 1951 by Sheila Robinson. The caption tells us that visitors to the four museums increased as a result of the poster by 65%! Lots more work by the Great Bardfield resident Sheila Robinson at the Fry Gallery site here.

And this is Yorkshire Wolds. All these paintings are for sale (or have been sold this week) at 8 Duke Street. And there is a book about Josephine Trotter, available here (scroll down).

This is Nethercot, Brampton, Devon. William Packer has written: ‘Josephine Trotter’s paintings may look direct and simple in the statement, but they are underpinned by disciplines long studied and hard won – disciplines of close observation, organisation and technical address, of light, space and form.’