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"You Buy 'Em, We'll Fly 'Em!" Vintage WWII Defense Bonds Poster by Wilkinsons
"You Buy 'Em, We'll Fly 'Em!" Vintage WWII Defense Bonds Poster by Wilkinsons

"You Buy 'Em, We'll Fly 'Em!" Vintage WWII Defense Bonds Poster by Wilkinsons

By Wilkinsons

Located in Colorado Springs, CO

They additionally championed recruitment and service enlistment, overall national productivity, and served as tools of motivation. This poster design was conceived by illustrators J.

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Vintage 1940s American Modern Posters

Materials

Paper

1963 Soviet Poster – USSR & Cuba Friendship Propaganda
1963 Soviet Poster – USSR & Cuba Friendship Propaganda

1963 Soviet Poster – USSR & Cuba Friendship Propaganda

Located in PARIS, FR

It encapsulates a moment when global alliances were not only negotiated through diplomacy and military power, but also carefully staged through imagery—where friendship itself became...

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1960s More Prints

Materials

Linen, Paper, Lithograph

Original Fly TWA The Orient vintage travel poster
Original Fly TWA The Orient vintage travel poster

Original Fly TWA The Orient vintage travel poster

By David Klein

Located in Spokane, WA

The economy improved significantly, leading to an increase in air travel for both business and leisure. Posters became essential tools in promoting TWA and air travel.

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1960s American Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Offset

Original "La 18 ch" vintage art deco automobile poster
Original "La 18 ch" vintage art deco automobile poster

Original "La 18 ch" vintage art deco automobile poster

By Rene Vincent

Located in Spokane, WA

Color was an essential tool in advertising when posters were an essential source for name-brand recognition.

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1920s Art Deco Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

1912 poster -  Officiel Paris-Spectacles 6 année - Folies-Bergère, the Olympia..
1912 poster -  Officiel Paris-Spectacles 6 année - Folies-Bergère, the Olympia..

1912 poster - Officiel Paris-Spectacles 6 année - Folies-Bergère, the Olympia..

Located in PARIS, FR

Before modern mass media, such posters were essential tools for navigating the city’s cultural offerings, serving both as practical guides and as eye-catching public displays.

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1910s More Prints

Materials

Paper, Lithograph

1977 original propaganda poster by the Soviet artistic collective Koukryniksy
1977 original propaganda poster by the Soviet artistic collective Koukryniksy

1977 original propaganda poster by the Soviet artistic collective Koukryniksy

By Koukryniksy

Located in PARIS, FR

Today, works by Koukryniksy are valued as historical artifacts, offering insight into Soviet perspectives during the Cold War. This 1977 poster remains a sought-after piece for colle...

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1970s Prints and Multiples

Materials

Linen, Paper, Lithograph

Original 6 Cylindres Berliet automobile black and white vintage poster
Original 6 Cylindres Berliet automobile black and white vintage poster

Original 6 Cylindres Berliet automobile black and white vintage poster

Located in Spokane, WA

Founded in 1899, and apart from a five-year period from 1944 to 1949 when it was put into 'administration sequestre' it was in private ownership until 1967 when it then became part o...

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1920s American Realist More Prints

Materials

Lithograph

1960 original travel poster by Jean Carlu - Air France travel to India
1960 original travel poster by Jean Carlu - Air France travel to India

1960 original travel poster by Jean Carlu - Air France travel to India

By Jean Carlu

Located in PARIS, FR

With its captivating imagery and evocative design, this poster serves as both a promotional tool for the airline and a captivating piece of art that captures the allure of travel and...

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1960s Prints and Multiples

Materials

Linen, Paper, Lithograph

Original 'Will You Supply Eyes for the Navy?' vintage American military poster
Original 'Will You Supply Eyes for the Navy?' vintage American military poster

Original 'Will You Supply Eyes for the Navy?' vintage American military poster

By Gordon Grant

Located in Spokane, WA

in bold letters1. The poster was created to encourage the public to donate binoculars and spy-glasses to the Navy, which was facing a shortage of these essential tools.

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1910s American Realist Portrait Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Original Keep These Off The U.S.A., Buy Liberty Bonds vintage WW1 poster
Original Keep These Off The U.S.A., Buy Liberty Bonds vintage WW1 poster

Original Keep These Off The U.S.A., Buy Liberty Bonds vintage WW1 poster

Located in Spokane, WA

Propaganda posters were critical tools during WWI, used to influence public opinion, fuel nationalism, and encourage enlistment or participation in war efforts, such as buying libert...

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1910s American Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Circa 1950 original travel - KLM Royal Dutch Airlines
Circa 1950 original travel - KLM Royal Dutch Airlines

Circa 1950 original travel - KLM Royal Dutch Airlines

Located in PARIS, FR

Belgian artist Jean Strebelle, known for his modernist approach and abstract visual language, brings an elegant and symbolic aesthetic to this promotional work, making it as much a p...

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1950s Prints and Multiples

Materials

Paper, Lithograph

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1950s AC Spark Plug Tool Holder Vintage Display
1950s AC Spark Plug Tool Holder Vintage Display

1950s AC Spark Plug Tool Holder Vintage Display

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1950s AC Spark Plug Tool Holder Vintage Display

Located in Orange, CA

This type of sign normally would have the tool kit hanging from the sign. Unfortunately the tools are not on this wood display but the advertising portion is still clean and can be u...

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Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Posters

Materials

Wood

Original Vintage Poster Holland Tradition Tools Skill Netherlands Industry Photo
Original Vintage Poster Holland Tradition Tools Skill Netherlands Industry Photo

Original Vintage Poster Holland Tradition Tools Skill Netherlands Industry Photo

Located in London, GB

Original vintage poster - Holland Tradition Tools changed, skill maintained in the Netherlands industry - featuring a mid-century modern design depicting a factory with two smoking c...

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Vintage 1950s Dutch Mid-Century Modern Posters

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Paper

Original Vintage War Health Safety Poster Sound Tools Safer Working ROSPA WWII
Original Vintage War Health Safety Poster Sound Tools Safer Working ROSPA WWII

Original Vintage War Health Safety Poster Sound Tools Safer Working ROSPA WWII

By Tom Eckersley 1

Located in London, GB

Original vintage World War Two health and safety poster published by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents ROSPA - Sound Tools Safer Working - featuring a great graphic d...

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Vintage 1940s British Mid-Century Modern Posters

Materials

Paper

1942 "You Buy 'Em / We'll Fly 'Em!" Vintage WWII Poster

1942 "You Buy 'Em / We'll Fly 'Em!" Vintage WWII Poster

Located in Colorado Springs, CO

They additionally championed recruitment and service enlistment, overall national productivity, and served as tools of motivation. This poster design was conceived by illustrators...

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Vintage 1940s Posters

1948 Original poster by Paul Colin - Vichy Mai Octobre
1948 Original poster by Paul Colin - Vichy Mai Octobre

1948 Original poster by Paul Colin - Vichy Mai Octobre

By Paul Colin

Located in PARIS, FR

As both a work of art and a promotional tool, this poster stands as a testament to Colin's enduring legacy as one of the masters of the genre.

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1940s Prints and Multiples

Materials

Linen, Paper, Lithograph

Original Vintage Poster Holland Tradition Tools Skill Netherlands Industry Photo
Original Vintage Poster Holland Tradition Tools Skill Netherlands Industry Photo

Original Vintage Poster Holland Tradition Tools Skill Netherlands Industry Photo

Located in London, GB

Original vintage poster - Holland Tradition Tools changed, skill maintained in the Netherlands industry - featuring a mid-century modern design depicting a factory with two smoking c...

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1950s More Prints

Materials

Paper

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Vintage Jim Dine Green Bathrobe exhibition poster, 1970s retro pop art font
Vintage Jim Dine Green Bathrobe exhibition poster, 1970s retro pop art font

Vintage Jim Dine Green Bathrobe exhibition poster, 1970s retro pop art font

By Jim Dine

Located in New York, NY

This original, vintage poster on poster stock features one of Jim Dine's most iconic motifs: the bathrobe. In 1964, Dine saw an ad in the New York Times: “The ad shows a robe with th...

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1970s Pop Art Figurative Prints

Materials

Paper, Offset

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Tool Posters For Sale on 1stDibs

There is a broad range of tool posters for sale on 1stDibs. Finding the ideal abstract, Pop Art or street art examples of these works for your living room, whether you’re looking for small- or large-size pieces, is no easy task — start by shopping our selection today. These items have long been popular, with older editions for sale from the 19th Century and newer versions made as recently as the 21st Century. Tool posters available on 1stDibs span a range of colors that includes gray, beige, black, brown and more. Gieler, Evan Stuart Marshall, Robert Kelly, Jim Dine and Bill Armstrong took a thoughtful approach to this subject that are worth considering. Frequently made by artists working in fabric, canvas and paper, all of these available pieces are unique and have attracted attention over the years.

How Much are Tool Posters?

Tool posters can differ in price owing to various characteristics — the average selling price for items in our inventory is $1,298, while the lowest priced sells for $40 and the highest can go for as much as $13,500.

Finding the Right Prints-works-on-paper for You

Decorating with fine art prints — whether they’re figurative prints, abstract prints or another variety — has always been a practical way of bringing a space to life as well as bringing works by an artist you love into your home.

Pursued in the 1960s and ’70s, largely by Pop artists drawn to its associations with mass production, advertising, packaging and seriality, as well as those challenging the primacy of the Abstract Expressionist brushstroke, printmaking was embraced in the 1980s by painters and conceptual artists ranging from David Salle and Elizabeth Murray to Adrian Piper and Sherrie Levine.

Printmaking is the transfer of an image from one surface to another. An artist takes a material like stone, metal, wood or wax, carves, incises, draws or otherwise marks it with an image, inks or paints it and then transfers the image to a piece of paper or other material.

Fine art prints are frequently confused with their more commercial counterparts. After all, our closest connection to the printed image is through mass-produced newspapers, magazines and books, and many people don’t realize that even though prints are editions, they start with an original image created by an artist with the intent of reproducing it in a small batch. Fine art prints are created in strictly limited editions — 20 or 30 or maybe 50 — and are always based on an image created specifically to be made into an edition.

Many people think of revered Dutch artist Rembrandt as a painter but may not know that he was a printmaker as well. His prints have been preserved in time along with the work of other celebrated printmakers such as Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí and Andy Warhol. These fine art prints are still highly sought after by collectors.

“It’s another tool in the artist’s toolbox, just like painting or sculpture or anything else that an artist uses in the service of mark making or expressing him- or herself,” says International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA) vice president Betsy Senior, of New York’s Betsy Senior Fine Art, Inc.

Because artist’s editions tend to be more affordable and available than his or her unique works, they’re more accessible and can be a great opportunity to bring a variety of colors, textures and shapes into a space.

For tight corners, select small fine art prints as opposed to the oversized bold piece you’ll hang as a focal point in the dining area. But be careful not to choose something that is too big for your space. And feel free to lean into it if need be — not every work needs picture-hanging hooks. Leaning a larger fine art print against the wall behind a bookcase can add a stylish installation-type dynamic to your living room. (Read more about how to arrange wall art here.)

Find fine art prints for sale on 1stDibs today.