RADEBAUGH, A Great Decorative Print - FFA-Future Farmers of America!!! - Legendary Futurist Imagineer Arthur Radebaugh - Tractor of Tomorrow

RADEBAUGH, A Great Decorative Print - FFA-Future Farmers of America!!! - Legendary Futurist Imagineer Arthur Radebaugh - Tractor of TomorrowTreasures from THE RADEBAUGH COLLECTION at Lost Highways Archive & Research Library. By exclusive arrangement with The Grand Review. Print size 24 x 18, and works with a 24 x 18 frame, or custom framed as you see fit. _____________________________________________ THESE ARTHUR RADEBAUGH PRINTS ARE EXCLUSIVE TO OUR COMPANY, THE GRAND REVIEW. They are watermarked here (but not on the final print) and cannot be reproduced without permission. If you wish

Treasures from THE RADEBAUGH COLLECTION at Lost Highways Archive & Research Library. By exclusive arrangement with The Grand Review.  Print size 24 x 18, and works with a 24 x 18 frame, or custom framed as you see fit.  
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THESE ARTHUR RADEBAUGH PRINTS ARE EXCLUSIVE TO OUR COMPANY, THE GRAND REVIEW. They are watermarked here (but not on the final print) and cannot be reproduced without permission.  
If you wish to add them anywhere online for reference, you must credit The Grand Review and have a link back to this posting.  This is essential for places like Pinterest.  We WANT Radebaugh’s work to be seen, just please follow modern protocol. Thanks.
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Now, we are very happy to present this modest yet essential collection of extraordinary works by the rediscovered Arthur Radebaugh, the work of many coming together to present the work of an amazing imagineer.

The prints are large and take up real visual real estate.  All have been built out to work easily with inexpensive store bought frames, or custom framed as you see fit.  Lively up your home or work place, or those of friends and family.  Enjoy!
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The story of futurist illustrator Arthur Radebaugh is long and delightfully multi faceted.  It is well told in the recently completed documentary CLOSER THAN WE THINK, by filmmaker Brett Ryan Bonowicz and his production company CLINDAR, which made its well received debut at the Other World Austin festival and has gone on to be named  
BEST DOCUMENTARY at the recent massively major 
Comic-Con International Independent Film Festival 
and the Boston Sci-Fi Film Festival, as well as runner up at the Berlin SciFi Festival.  The film, which covers our rediscovery and reigniting of interest in Radebaugh here in Philadelphia as well as the fascinating narrative of his life and impact, can be viewed via Vimeo.  We recommend it!

My role, as an historian and rabid collector of unusual imagery, was to be in the right place at the right moment to acquire a lost portfolio of his work, and to recognize that here was someone worth snatching from obscurity and savoring every morsel of information we could find about this undeservedly obscure imagineer.

With my associate Jared Rosenbaum, we curated an exhibit that took form at exactly the pace we could fill in the blanks.  What was at the time the brand new internet connected us with others who knew him or knew his work, the method we take for granted nowadays, but absolutely thrilling in its newness and apropos to Radebaugh and the concept of ‘the future’.  The resulting exhibition was an international hit, thanks in large part to a world wide heads up given the rediscovered Radebaugh by Popular Science online.  Again, please capture the feeling if you will of yesterday’s future being promoted to the world by the sudden arrival of the future.  It was delicious!!!

The prints here at The Grand Review are selections from that exhibit, called RADEBAUGH, THE FUTURE WE WERE PROMISED.  The show traveled from Philadelphia  to The Utopiales Festival in Nantes, which proved a wonderful adventure for me, my wife Kristin Kimmell, Jared and his fiance, Rachel Mackow.

When it returned to the States, Jared Rosenbaum recurated the exhibit and took it to Detroit where it was given the honor of serving as the inaugural exhibit for the brand new facility for The National Automotive History Collection.

Next year, Chicago based design history author Tim Lapetino will present a book on the story of our favorite futurist, and we’re very much looking forward to it.  From Tim’s website… “I’m obsessed with exploring and understanding the creative process, and I love telling the stories of unheralded creative people who work beyond the spotlight.”

Over the next year, we will add a few more prints to the collection, mostly obscure and sometimes unacknowledged Radebaugh rarities we discovered and stashed away over these past 17 years of collecting.

Now, we are very happy to present this modest yet essential collection of extraordinary works by the rediscovered Arthur Radebaugh.

Enjoy!!!

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SHIPPING

All prints are shipped in a sturdy mailing tube for $8, which covers postage, tube and S & H.

BUYING MORE THAN ONE PRINT?  Add a second print or any number thereafter of this or any other prints in our catalog and shipping is still just $8, total!!!

International shipping is available and reasonable. Please contact us for details.

A NOTE ON OUR PROCESS, OUR CHOICES AND THE QUALITY OF THE GRAPHIC CRAFTSMANSHIP THAT GOES INTO OUR PRINTS.

Every print we deem exciting enough to present to the public via our Etsy store or available here at our studio has gone through a number of steps.  The first of those is always discovering and falling in love with an obscure image, always an original that we can hold in our hands.  That image is speaking to us, sometime screaming “Don’t leave me here.  See what I am, what I was, what I can be, what I SHOULD be!”

There is a real sense of excitement involved, and a great many smiles and knowing grins when we make that deal and bring that ancient print, that battered photo, that scrap of ephemera that contains some scrap of genius from an unknown commercial artist home with us, knowing already how we mean to approach its restoration.

There is the heady promise of a further hunt just as real as what drags a weekend fisherman out of bed at 3AM to work a favorite brook as we start our research, looking for that great backstory, and both ready and willing to tumble down as many rabbit holes as are revealed to us to get that story.

Then there is a meticulous digital restoration that is as often as much fun as riding a vintage Moto Guzzi on a winding coastal road.  I don’t care if that sounds crazy, it really is like jumping in the saddle!  So many choices, so many chances to take to subtly or spectacularly give new life to otherwise permanently obscure images.

This dedication and the ongoing rush of joy in the accomplishment of it, and the opportunity to share the results in our studio and here on Etsy, is the fire of passion that keeps these engines roaring. We make every effort to ensure our customers are not just satisfied but thrilled, and we happily stand 100% behind our work.