Friday, November 20, 2020 – Take a break from New York and all aboard the train to Nice
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2020
The
215th Edition
From Our Archives
ROGER BRODERS
OFF ON A TRAIN TRIP TO FRENCH
RIVIERA RESORTS
WITH THIS
ILLUSTRATOR
You can make two stops en-route
Roger Broders (born Paris, France, 1883, died, Paris, 1953) was a French illustrator and artist best known for his travel posters promoting tourism destinations in France, typically fashionable beaches of the Côte d’Azur and skiing resorts in the French Alps in the early 20th century. Broders’ illustrations were distinctive for their simple lines and bold, flat areas of color, combined with noticeable graphical perspective showing the featured mountains and seascapes in the background. Broders’ illustrations depicting people show active elongated figures wearing elegant, contemporary clothes. His posters were simply and boldly lettered identifying the destination, and were supplemented with a brief slogan. The Paris Lyon Mediteranée Company (PLM), a railway, commissioned Broders’ poster art, sponsoring his travel so he could visit the subjects of his work. From 1922 to 1932, Broders fully dedicated himself to poster art, though overall he produced fewer than 100 posters. Lithographs of Broders’ travel posters are still available commercially. See for instance Christie’s London Ski Sale on 21 January 2010. Others are shown in the book about Railway Posters, published in Munich in 2011 and listed below.
Paris Lyon Mediteranée Company (PLM),
New York Skyline at William J. Jenack Estate Appraisers & Auctioneers in 2016
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THURSDAY PHOTO OF THE DAY
This was more grand than the Blackwell House.
The warden of the Blackwell’s Island Penitentiary
had this grand home with an in-ground swimming pool. The house was located just south of the Queensboro Bridge. The penitentiary administration was notoriously corrupt and I am sure there was some intrigue here.
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EDITORIAL
The thought of a pandemic and staying home for almost a year reminds me of the good life I had as a travel agent and the few trips I took to the French Riviera. Maybe the illusion of the joyful life will cheer our long winter ahead.
Judith Berdy
Text by Judith Berdy
Thanks to Bobbie Slonevsky for her dedication to Blackwell’s Almanac and the RIHS
Thanks to Deborah Dorff for maintaining our website
Edited by Melanie Colter and Deborah Dorff
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