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Pictorial style: Stanley Davis (3rd of 3)

Pictorial style: Stanley Davis

This Gregg’s coffee advertisement was designed by Stanley Davis around 1926. Davis was a supervising artist at New Zealand Railways between 1922 and 1932. He employed a realistic, pictorial style in most of his work.  

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Alexander Turnbull Library
Reference: Eph-E-BEVERAGE-Coffee-1926-01

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How to cite this page:

Hamish Thompson, 'Graphic design - Victorian design to modernism, 1890s to 1940s', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/ephemera/43803/pictorial-style-stanley-davis (accessed 19 April 2024)

Story by Hamish Thompson, published 22 Oct 2014