A spread from Justin Green’s “The Sign Game,” which suggests that the rules of sign painting should be bent in unique situations, like near a city jail. Via Justin Green.
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Harley Warrick was an American barn painter, best known for his work painting Mail Pouch tobacco advertising on barns across 13 states in the American Midwest and Appalachian states. Over his 55 year career, Warrick painted or retouched over 20,000 Mail Pouch signs. When he retired, he was the last of the Mail Pouch sign painters in America.
