ORIGINAL Vintage Airline Travel Poster SAS Scandinavian Storks - LINEN BACKED

Description

S.A.S. SCANDINAVIAN AIRLINES SYSTEM
WHITE STORKS
1950's
ARTIST:
OTTO NIELSON
Description:
The white stork (Ciconia ciconia) is a large bird in the stork family Ciconiidae. Its plumage is mainly white, with black on its wings. Adults have long red legs and long pointed red beaks, and measure on average 100–115 cm (39–45 in) from beak tip to end of tail, with a 155–215 cm (61–85 in) wingspan. The two subspecies, which differ slightly in size, breed in Europe (north to Finland), northwestern Africa, southwestern Asia (east to southern Kazakhstan) and southern Africa. The white stork is a long-distance migrant, wintering in Africa from tropical Sub-Saharan Africa to as far south as South Africa, or on the Indian subcontinent. When migrating between Europe and Africa, it avoids crossing the Mediterranean Sea and detours via the Levant in the east or the Strait of Gibraltar in the west, because the air thermals on which it depends do not form over water.
Artist:
Otto Nielsen (1916-2000)
Danish artist who produced many posters for SAS (Scandinavian Airlines System). In the 1960’s Otto Nielsen promoted the romance and excitement of faraway lands with his series of posters for the Danish airline SAS. Nielsen was a watercolor painter who when tasked with this graphic challenge, came up with the clever idea of depicting animals traveling two by two to exotic destinations.
Otto Nielsen, was born in Aarhus, Denmark where he was educated at Gustavus Bach's Character College in 1934-35. He loved to travel, and  he started work with the airline DDL in 1946 prior to moving to SAS airlines, his work was reproduced on SAS calendars and travel posters from 1954 to 1976.
He wrote and illustrated many books,including travel books. In 1973 and 1993 he made posters for the Tivoli Gardens. Otto Nielsen's artwork has been exhibited in many museums. In addition Otto Nielsen's works are represented at the Museum of  Decorative Art, the Museum of Danish cartoonists, Danish Revy Museum,  Danish Poster Museum, Arts Museum, the Moderna Museet and Bryn Artiyn Library in Pennsylvania.
Condition and dimensions:
This poster has been conservation backed on acid-free paper and canvas and is ready for framing.
In good - excellent condition.
Tape residue on 3 corners. No edge wear, small professionally repaired tear left edge (please review detailed photos).
Clean paper and vivid colors!
Incl. Canvas: 26.5 X 40.5 Inches (67.31 X 102.87 cm)
Poster Only: 25 X 39 Inches (63.5 X 99.06 cm)
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