This beautiful reproduction poster has been re-mastered from an original 1945 cutaway of the Lockheed Constellation airliner. This detailed cutaway view of the famous airliner was created by renowned artist/illustrator William Reynold Brown.
The vibrant colors and detail of this classic image have been painstakingly brought back to life to preserve a great piece of history.
The high-resolution image is printed on heavy archival photo paper, on a large-format, professional giclée process printer. The poster is shipped in a rigid cardboard tube, and is ready for framing.
The 13"x19" and 24"x36" formats are excellent image sizes that look great as a stand-alone piece of art, or grouped as a visual statement. These posters require no cutting, trimming, or custom framing, and a wide variety of these frames are readily available at your local craft or hobby retailer, and online. The 24”x36” poster has a 1” white border.
A great vintage print for your home, shop, or business!
LOCKHEED CONSTELLATION & REYNOLD BROWN
The Lockheed Constellation ("Connie") is a propeller-driven, four-engined airliner built by Lockheed Corporation starting in 1943. The Constellation series was the first pressurized-cabin civil airliner series to go into widespread use. Its pressurized cabin enabled commercial passengers to fly well above most bad weather for the first time, thus significantly improving the general safety and ease of air travel.
Several different models of the Constellation series were produced, although they all featured the distinctive triple-tail and dolphin-shaped fuselage. Most were powered by four 18-cylinder Wright R-3350 Duplex-Cyclones.
In total, 856 Constellations were produced between 1943 and 1958 at Lockheed's plant in Burbank, California, and used as both a civil airliner and as a military and civilian cargo transport. Among their famous uses was during the Berlin and the Biafran airlifts. Three served as the presidential aircraft for Dwight D. Eisenhower, one of which is featured at the National Museum of the United States Air Force.
William Reynold Brown
William Reynold Brown was a prolific American artist whose career embraced virtually every face of the illustration field. Brown produced art for the newspaper comics, and is credited for inventing the concept of the cutaway drawings for North American aviation companies.
Brown created cover art for some of the first earliest paperback books ever published. He illustrated hundreds magazine covers, and more than 300 movie posters.
Known in the art world as Reynold Brown, his movie posters embraced “theme,” “stars,” and “romance,” the basic elements required in most movie posters.
