Go Empress - To Canada and United States - Canadian Pacific - Vintage Ocean Liner Travel Poster by Roger Couillard c.1950 - Japanese Unryu Rice Paper Art Print (Unframed) 12 x 16 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 - Roger Couillard - Roger Couillard (1910 - 1999) Roger Couillard was born in Montreal, 1910 and studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Montreal. In 1935 the Institute of Foreign Travel organized a poster competition on the theme of 'See Europe Next.' Coulliard's poster was among those chosen and exhibited in Ogilvey's [Department Store, Montreal]. By 1937 he opened a studio in the Drummond Building on Ste. Catherine Street in Montreal.... Couillard entered the Quebec Ministry of Tourism in 1966, whre be became an inspector for hotels, retiring from that position in 1975.