Description
The style and conception of the image recalls illustration art used to promote ski resorts, regions, and competitive events in the early to mid 20th century. Indeed this work echoes famous ski resort posters created in the 1930s to 1950s advertising the Alps and other European resorts. The imagery is also found in American ski posters of the same period. For example, a 1939 Dartmouth Winter Carnival poster by Dom Lupo similarly features a bright smiling woman and her male friend carrying skies over her shoulder. Domenic Lupo (1919–2013) was a native of Waltham, Massachusetts, and later became a prominent illustrator for national publications like Sports Illustrated and Golf Digest.
