World Route Map - Pan American World Airways - The System of the Flying Clippers - Vintage Airline Travel Poster by Richard Edes Harrison c.1947 - Japanese Unryu Rice Paper Art Print 24 x 32 in

Pacifica Island Art uses an environmentally-friendly Unryu Japanese rice paper made by the Awagami Factory in Tokushima, Japan. Unryu, which translates to 'cloud dragon paper' in Japanese, features long strands of kozo fiber and is made from natural mulberry and hemp fibers using traditional Japanese Washi techniques - ABOUT THE ARTIST - Richard Edes Harrison - Richard Edes Harrison (1901-1994) known as Ricki, was born in Baltimore. He was a 1923 graduate in zoology from Yale University, where he also earned a master's degree in architecture. He honed his skills as an illustrator and architect before going to work for Time-Life as a cartographer. Harrison had come to that craft after studying a government publication on the nature of map projections. He opened his own company in Manhattan in the 1940's and remained active in his trade until five years ago. Harrison was known for his technique of hill shading, which renders a page in such a way that it appears three-dimensional. Using different maps from different sources, he could create new projections to fit his maps to the particular purposes for which they were intended.