International Poster Gallery’s

Summer Show Opens July 4

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Inman’s Flying Circus offered “Airplane Rides” for 50¢ and “long high rides” for $1.

Serene and beautiful, Paul Lawler’s “Pan Am to South Sea Isles,” advertised Pan Am Clipper service to Pago Pago.

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INTERNATIONAL POSTER GALLERY SUMMER POSTER SHOW OPENS JULY 4, w/2 cuts

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BOSTON, MASS. — Indulge in the spirit of wanderlust with the International Poster Gallery’s 14th annual Summer Poster Show, “Summer Adventures!” The show spotlights more than 50 original vintage travel, sport and entertainment posters, and runs from July 4 through Labor Day, September 3. The show is free and open to the public.

The show is headlined by a classic American poster from the Roaring Twenties, “Airplane Rides,” where the highly popular Inman Flying Circus offers “special rides” for 50 cents and “long high rides” for $1. The air show also featured a 4,000-foot parachute jump from an “advanced” aircraft (the Boeing 80-A could carry 20 passengers).

The show also includes the most famous Pan Am Clipper poster, Paul Lawler’s “Pan Am to South Sea Isles,” which brings to life the exotic adventures of luxury travel in the 1930s. A beautiful island native serenely watches a Boeing Super Clipper 314 land in the dramatic bay of Pago Pago.

The show features several other airline posters, including the hard to find “Air France to West Africa” of 1946. This poster had to be printed a second time, as the artist had pictured Asian elephants by mistake in this rare first version.

Train and ocean travel is well represented by the beautiful 1930s-era posters for the German ocean liner companies, which are some of the best-kept secrets of the poster world. A fine group of HAPAG posters to the Middle East include Ottomar Anton’s view of a camel and Arab rider in front of the pyramids.

Summer sport posters echo the theme of travel and adventure, in particular mountain climbing posters. The show includes Karl Kunst’s early “Sporthaus Schuster,” circa 1910, poster for a leading climbing supplier of Munich that helped to fuel interest around the globe in mountain climbing. Swiss classics from Otto Baumberger and Emil Cardinaux round out this theme.

Auto racing from several decades is represented by Geo Ham Monaco posters from the 1930s, Beligond’s Le Mans images from the 1950s, and Porsche images from the 1970s.

No summer is complete without blockbuster entertainment, which is represented in the show by one of the best King Kong film posters from 1949 by leading Italian film posterist Giorgio Olivetti. The show concludes with several film festival posters from Switzerland and postwar jazz festival posters from Willisau and Montreux.

The gallery is at 205 Newbury Street, and hours are Monday through Saturday 10 am to 6 pm and Sunday noon to 6 pm.

 For additional information, www.internationalposter.com or 617-375-0076.