An assortment of contemporary printed posters and art prints covering various themes including natural history, technical illustration, and psychedelic music art.
The natural history subjects include a large horizontal reference poster titled Types of Bee, illustrating various species such as Mining, Carpenter, Bumble, and Mason bees. Two vertical posters are present: Songbirds of Arkansas, featuring illustrations of the Northern Cardinal, Blue Jay, and Eastern Bluebird, and Animals of the Galapagos, depicting the Giant Galapagos Tortoise, Marine Iguana, and Blue-Footed Booby. The collection also includes a trio of smaller packaged prints featuring Great Barrier Reef Fishes, a botanical mushroom study, and an oological study of bird eggs.
The technical illustration section features a blueprint-style poster of the McDonnell Douglas (Boeing) F-15E Strike Eagle. This item includes multiple schematic views and a specifications table in Russian. Text at the bottom includes the inscription Drawing by A.V. Khaustov (Чертеж А.В. Хаустова) and a copyright notice for Aviation and Time magazine, dated 2004.
Music-themed items include two psychedelic posters. The Pink Floyd poster incorporates band imagery such as Battersea Power Station and a pig. The Rolling Stones poster is designed in a 1960s psychedelic style with references to Beggars Banquet and San Francisco.
Several additional posters remain rolled in protective plastic sleeves and mailing tubes, some bearing commercial retail barcodes. One mailing tube is hand-labelled Bees. One cardboard tube features handwritten dimensions. The prints are produced on a mix of heavy paper and canvas-textured media.
Dimensions: 16 1/4 x 11 1/2 x 1 inches (inscribed on tube).
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