Visit India - Howrah Bridge Calcutta Indian State Railways - Vintage Railroad Travel Poster by William Spencer Bagdatopoulos c.1930 - Fine Art Matte Paper Print (Unframed) 20x26in

Enjoy a taste of Aloha with these beautiful Fine Art Prints by Pacifica Island Art - printed in Maui, Hawaii. This print will look wonderful framed in the home, office or restaurant and is perfect for the Vintage Art Collector. - ABOUT THE ARTIST - William Spencer Bagdatopoulos - William Spencer Bagdatopoulos (1888-1965) was a painter and commercial artist, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He is known for his Orientalist renditions of people and monuments in the East. Born of mixed Greek-English parentage on the island of Zante, Greece, in 1888, he spent his childhood in the Netherlands. He entered the Academie van Beeldende Kunsten, Rotterdam (the Rotterdam Art Academy) at age 11. At the age of sixteen he travelled to what was then called the Near East, painting in Egypt and Palestine, and going on to study art for another year at the Athens Academy (1906–07). He traveled and worked in Turkey, Egypt, Palestine, returning to London in 1908 at the age of 20, where he studied and started working as an artist, painting commissions for portraits, illustrations, murals, and posters for business houses, shipping companies, and the railways. He was elected a member of the Royal Society of Arts, England in 1909, and was a medalist at the National Competition of 1913 in South Kensington. In 1928, Bagdatopoulos moved to the USA, becoming a naturalized U. S. citizen. He settled in Santa Barbara, California working as an artist, chiefly painting portraits. He also worked as a set designer for stage and film. He turned later in his career to 'the more demanding discipline of printmaking, producing a considerable body of works in both etching and drypoint'.