Cunard R.M.S. Aquitania, 1925 by A.K. MacDonald Green Frog located near the Ladies Mile

located near the Ladies Mile on East 9th and University Place

It was demolished in 1927 to make way for the new Hotel Paxton

Sherman Oaks

we see growing use of modernism in commercial art and design from the 1940s onwards

Cunard R.M.S. Aquitania, 1925 by A.K. MacDonald Green Frog located near the Ladies MileThis glorious menu art is by Alistair K MacDonald (1880 1948). He was a prolific Scottish artist whose charming and detailed works appeared regularly in British and American periodicals in the first half of the 20th century. Born in Buenos Aires he grew up on the Isle of Skye and was much in demand from magazine publishers from the 1920s. He was also a successful book illustrator. MacDonald designed the cocktail and dinner menus for the Cunard White