Framing an American Flag Poster from 1942

I had a client come in last month with these amazing prints. He is a huge Beatles fan and this was a great score for him to get the full set. In 1967, Beatles Manager Brian Epstein commissioned fashion and portrait photographer Richard Avedon to shoot the band members and design a set of posters that would visually capture the new psychedelic direction of the Beatle’s music. Avedon took a number of shots of the group on August 11, 1967, four of which were later adorned with psychedelic effects. Avedon overlaid the solarized prints with Day-Glo colors and symbolic attributes; Ringo's white peace dove, George's mystical henna patterns, Paul's flower power, and John's trippy eyeglasses. They were first published in the January 9, 1968 edition of the Look Magazine in the U.S. and were subsequently sold as posters. Wanting to keep with the feel of the Psychedelic Era, I chose to put them in frames representing the psychedelic time by using the company Spark and their hand made frames. Below is the images of the original black and white photos Avedon took as an inspiration for the psychedelic ones.

I had one of our very good clients come in with this gem. She found it in a drawer while cleaning out her mother's house. She believed it was either from her grandparents or was picked up by her parents on their travels. This is a complete calendar of The Rubaiyat by Omar Kahayyam, with beautiful illustrations and poems for each month of the year, tied together with string in a brown and gold cover from 1917. “The Rubaiyat” was first published in March 1859. In this edition, the illustrations were done by Ethel Davis Seal (1885-1965), also known for illustrations of interiors of homes and home decor in publications such as Ladies Home Journal in the early teens into the late 1920's. We designed it to be 4 framed pieces. The first frame shows the cover and title page with the following three each displaying four months. Each page has different illustrations yet it flows beautifully together as a set, using harmonious designs and colors. We floated the pages on Acid free black matting, using museum glass and spacers and finished it with a 23k gold closed corner frame.

Rick Griffin Concert Poster for the Fillmore

A Galleria Scola client story, "When I was a child, a weathered old document always hung somewhere, in a hall or the corner of a room in whatever house we were in..."

100 year old watercolor framing restoration project