Great Barrier Reef, Australia - Vintage Australian Travel Poster
Great Barrier Reef - Australia.
 
Great Barrier Reef, Queensland Australia poster by Gert Sellheim is an outstanding example of early modernist graphic design. the original colour lithograph was printed by F.W.Niven Pty Ltd in 1935 for the Australian National Travel Association.
 
The minimal, abstracted elements in the design reflect Sellheim’s consciousness of international modernism at the time. The work reveals a stylised image of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, presenting a unique natural environment which has progressed in significance in the Australian imagination.