TWA David Klein, Taipei In-flight Menu Art 1960s

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TWA David Klein, Taipei In-flight Menu Art 1960sThis lovely image of the National Palace Museum Gate in Taipei, Taiwan was created by the influential American artist David Klein, who produced posters for theatre productions, movies, the US Army and various corporate clients. Born in El Paso, Texas, in 1918, he moved to California to study at the Art Centre School in Los Angeles (later renamed the Art Center College of Design). His extraordinary talent was perhaps most evident in his work between

The Barrels was a casualty of modern tastes and seems to have closed in 1948

Through subsequent owners the name stayed the same

It comes from The Midland Hotel

Art had been assistant chef and maître d’ at the Cleveland Statler hotel and his brother Gene spent many years in the meat business

Born in San Francisco one month after the 1906 earthquake

near Pinecrest and Beardsly lakes

‘A much more significant change was that China Doll played on Asian stereotypes in ways that Chinese-owned San Franciscan clubs did not

The menu was plain but extensive

sitting in a corner and reading newspapers

having flown over a million miles

Everyone is a little tipsy

The trio had been known as the Picassso-ettes