Chicago Illinois - Buckingham Fountain Marina City - Delta Air Lines - Vintage Airline Travel Poster by Fred Sweney c.1970s - 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 - Fred Sweney - Fred Sweney (1912-1996) was a renowned wildlife artist who was commissioned by Delta Airlines in the 1960's to design 28 travel posters. Born in Pennsylvania, he studied at the Cleveland School of Art, and became an illustrator, painter, author and teacher. Focusing on natural history subjects early in his career, he won a prize in an exhibition of bird art at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History in 1939. Sweney contributed articles and illustrations to national magazines including Sports Afield, Nature, Outdoors and Outdoors Man. He created the artwork for the Minnesota-based Brown & Bigelow publishing company's wildlife calendars for 10 years. By 1956 he was a professor at the Ringling School of Art in Sarasota, Florida and wrote several instructional art books in the years to follow.