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Description: | Austin Cooper was born on the prairie in Manitoba, Canada. He was sent to Europe as a child and studied at the Cardiff School of Art from the age of 13. In 1906 he won a scholarship to the Allan-Frazer Art College in Arbroath.
Cooper began his career as a commercial artist in Montreal. In 1922 he moved to London, where he received the first of 54 poster commissions from the Underground group.
He designed this poster for London General Omnibus Company in 1928. It was issued in the summer to promote leisure travel by bus. | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | London Transport Museum | Rights holder: | Transport for London | Subjects: | Transport Art and Design | Temporal: | 1928 | Source: | London Transport Museum | Creator: | Printer : Adams Bros and Shardlow Ltd | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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