David Klein (American artist)

Although he produced illustrations for Broadway theatrical productions, Hollywood films, the United States Army, and numerous corporate clients, Klein is best remembered for the iconic travel images he created for Howard Hughes and Trans World Airlines (TWA) during the 1950s and 1960s.

The Smithsonian Institution has periodically exhibited a number of these pieces at its museum in Washington D.C.[2] Following the war, Klein relocated to New York City where he became the preferred illustrator of the Broadway Theater District.

He is credited with creating window cards and posters for many of the most popular Broadway productions of the late 1940s and early 1950s, including: Brigadoon; The Most Happy Fella; The Music Man; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; and Alice In Wonderland.

Klein produced the bulk of this work for Howard Hughes and Trans World Airlines (TWA), illustrating dozens of posters advertising travel throughout the United States and abroad.

[5] In late 2008, Entertainment Weekly featured Klein's 1964 TWA World’s Fair poster in an article discussing the popular AMC advertising drama, Mad Men.