During the 1920s and 1930s the Underground Group’s posters reached a peak of stylistic quality. In 1927 the art critic of The Times claimed, ‘there can be no doubt at all that the credit for the earliest consistent use of good posters of any kind belongs to the Underground’.  

By 1933, when London Transport was formed as a unified entity, the company was regarded as a leading patron of the arts. London Transport’s Chief Executive, Frank Pick, who had first started this progressive approach to pictorial posters in 1908, continued to oversee a huge array of commissions. These were rich in quantity and quality, with over 40 posters commissioned a year by a wide range of designers, from the famous and established to the new and unknown. 

1. KENSINGTON PALACE Seila Robinson 1953

2. TOWER OF LONDON Hans Under 1956

3. ESSEX John Mansbridge 1935

4. WET OR FINE Dorothy Hutton 1954

5. WILD OR SAVAGE Betty Swanwick 1954

6. OUT AND ABOUT Dora Batty 1938

7. WOODS E. McKnight Kauffer 1938

8. VERULAMIUM John Bainbridge 1957

9. ROYAL EFFIGIES S. Mensforth 1961

10. WHIPSNADE ZOO  Hans Unger 1956

11. AND THE GROVES Barnett Freedman 1956

12. KEW GARDENS Edwin Tatum 1956

13. SPRING P Millichip 1957

14.THE WEST END R. Glendening 1957

15. BUTTERFLIES Derick Sayer 1952

16. WILLOWS E. McKnight Kauffer 1932

17. CAMOUFLAUGE Edward Wadsworth 1936

18. LONDON'S FAIR William Roberts 1951

19. VARIETY James Fitton 1937

20. WALKING Susanna Bott 1961

21. RAVENS R.B. Talbot Kelly 1960

22. PICASSO R. Scanlan 1966

23. WINTER WALKS Edward Mortelmans 1948

24. SPRING FLOWERS John Farleigh 1959

25. BRAVE NEW LONDON Hans Unger 1960

26. COUNTRY MARKETS Philip Roberts 1960

27. SPRING H. Stevens 1961

28. COACH TOWNS A. Games 1960

29. COUNTY HOUSES Clive Gardiner 1951

30. FARMS James Arnold 1950

31. FLOWERS E.W. Fenton 1952

32. BIRDS Harold Hussey 1952

33. COMMON OR GARDEN  E.C. Tatum 1954

34. PANTOMIMES AND SHOWS Lewi Bassingthwaighte  1950

35. TWICKENHAM E. McKnight Kauffer 1924

36. FLOWERS Maurice Wilson 1949

37. COUNTRY HOUSES S. John Woods 1950

38. CHINGFORD Gregory Brown 1927

39. AUTUMN WOODS Keith Cunningham 1950

40. SPRING Hans Unger 1956

41. WEDDING Betty Swanwick 1938

42. DOWNLAND Clifford & Rosemary Ellis 1932

43. BEACONFIELD H.S. Williamson 1929

44. WINDSOR CASTLE Clive Gardiner 1928

45. SOUTHEND Hans Unger 1956

46. EPPING FOREST John Bainbridge 1956

47. WINDSOR CASTLE John Bainbridge 1956

48. HAMPTON COURT Oleg Zinger 1937

49. LAMBING Clare Leighton 1938

50. HERTFORDSHIRE John Farleigh 1947

51. MUSEUMS AND ART GALLERIES Anthony Gilbert 1949

52. MUSEUMS AND ART GALLERIES Peter Roberson 1956

53. WINTER Hans Unger 1958

54. EARTLY SUMMER John Farleigh 1962

55. MUSEUMS Edwin Tatum 1957

56. MARKETS Gaynor Chapman 1961

57. LONDON STATUES George Chapman 1955