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Description

Vintage poster, showing red and white bottles of wine with one full and one empty glass among vines, promoting California sauterne and burgundy wines.

Amado Gonzalez (1913 - 2007) was born in Guadalajara, immigrated with his family to San Francisco in 1927, and graduated from Mission High School. Inspired by the Mexican Muralism Movement, he started his studies at the California School of Fine Arts under Lucien Labaudt and assisted Ray Boynton on the PWAP-backed Coit Tower murals. He gained success working as a designer and illustrator in advertising. One of his major campaigns was a series of advertisements for the Bank of America in the late 1950s. Other accounts included Standard Oil of California, Crown-Zellerbach, Californians, Inc., American President Lines, and Pacific Telephone. An accomplished artist, he was commissioned by the Wine Advisory Board to illustrate a series of posters promoting California wine.

The Wine Advisory Board, established under the Department of Agriculture in 1938, operates under the California Marketing Act of 1936, defining wine as an agricultural product, and is funded by assessments of wineries based on their volume of sales. In 1975, the board voted for its own dissolution after it was unwilling to comply with new demands from the U.S. Department of Food and Agriculture upon renewal of its marketing order.

Condition Description
Mounted on poster linen. Small holes at each of four corners. Light mark on top margin of poster linen.
Reference
Amerine, Maynard Andrew., Joslyn, Maynard Alexander. Table Wines: The Technology of Their Production. United States: University of California Press, 1970.