Textron ad art
Aug 18, 2012 in Other people's art
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I’ve been a fan of the Illustrations in vintage Textron ads for some time. According to Wikipedia Textron started out as “Special Yarns Company”, making synthetic yarns, and later merged with another company to become Textron.
These days they are apparently mostly making stuff like aircraft and weapons, but in the 40s they made wonderful lingerie and lounge wear.
The advertisement illustrations all have a dreamy fantasy quality that I love, very surrealist inspired. The illustrator was Charlotte J. Sternberg.
Where no source is mentioned the images were generally found in Ebay lots.