Austin Cooper was a painter, commercial artist and educator. He’s best known as the creator of avant-garde travel posters for British railway and steamship companies.
Born in Souris, Manitoba, Canada, a town about 140 miles west of Winnipeg, he died in London, England, where he appears to have lived and worked for most of his life. While a child, he moved with his family to Cardiff, Wales (1896) and returned to Canada in the early 1910s. He worked in Montreal as an interior de (showing 500 of 9829 characters). |
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