William Welsh

American William Welsh was an illustrator, portrait painter, muralist, and poster artist. He grew up in Lexington, Kentucky, and studied at the Art Students League and later at the Académie Julian in Paris. Welsh won numerous prizes and medals for his work. He illustrated magazine covers for Woman’s Home Companion, Hearst International Publications, and Cosmopolitan as well as travel posters for the Pullman Company.

Between 1935 and 1938, a vice-president of the Pullman Company commissioned nearly a dozen poster designs from Welsh. The Winter Resort posters from 1935, measuring 68 x 51.5 cm, were printed by the Charles Daniel Frey Company in Chicago. The same applies to the two posters Summer Resort and Winter Playgrounds. It is not known which and how many of these posters were exhibited in Berlin.