Always interesting to find a new (to me) urban artist. Here are just a couple of the many paintings Bill Goffrier has made of the Wichita streetscape, both oils from 2017 of the Orpheum Theatre, still a floruishing arts centre.

Ruskin Spear’s atmospheric c.1950 oil painting ‘Bus Stop’ sold at auction this week for £4,445.

Here’s a good ghostsign, from Fort Edward, NY.

Who doesn’t like a motel sign? Good article on 100 years of motels in the New York Times, featuring the photography of Carol Highsmith, above.

The excellent London-based urban landscape artist Marie Lenclos has a new show opening next week at the Art Friend Gallery in Columbia Road, Bethnal Green. Here are a few example of her earlier work.

Three ghostsigns and some restaurant neon from Watertown in New York state. Despite its brightness I don’t think the Gold Medal ad has been repainted. And I do like the confidence of its “Eventually… why not now?” slogan.

Good signs in Clayton, NY. Not all ghostsigns, as the Homestead Restaurant is very much in business.

This sounds good. “Practically harmless” apparently. From the first issue of Country Life magazine in 1897.

From 1947, when coal was good for you.

Apartment history by wallpaper at the Janis Rozentāls Museum, Riga.

Three pleasing plates from Romans Suta (1896-1944) on show at the Riga Museum of Decorative Arts & Design.

Before today I had neither heard of, nor ever knowingly seen any work by, the artist Stasys Ušinskas (1905-1974), but that changed with a visit to the Vilnius Museum of Applied Arts & Design, currently showcasing the extraordinary breadth of his talent. Here, some paintings from the 1930s - A Human Between The Saws; Farmers At The Market Place; and Bathing Women - but there is much more to explore.

Modern illustration in the grand tradition of Italian design: artwork for a poster reflecting 'Coffee The Italian Way', produced by illustrator Daniele Simonelli.

John A Brubaker’s poster for Book Week, 1925. I agree.

Ocean Limited, 1962, by Alex Colville, seen at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax.

Lobster pots in Sandford, Nova Scotia.