About the artist
Charles Paine was born in Salford in 1895, He began his art career as a designer of stained-glass for Guthrie and Wells in Glasgow. He later became a prolific poster artist, creating vibrant and graphic works for London Transport, His simplistic yet very distinctive designs were used in many other advertising campaigns and literary publications. Throughout the 1920s, he designed 31 posters for the London Underground.
