Category Archives: motorcycle art

The T-shirt and its role in Motorcycle Culture

1920 Excelsior 20R t shirt

The Beginning of a Phenomenon The T-shirt with printed image—a phenomenon dating largely to the 1950s, exploding in popularity in the 1960s, and with its ancestral roots in post-World War I returning servicemen—is an ideal medium for proclaiming classic motorcycles. Interestingly, Marlon Brando, the actor whose portrayal of a motorcyclist in 1954’s The Wild One […]

The Motorcycle as Art

the motorcycle as art

Recently, while returning home from a business trip, I decided to take the long way home and visit my favorite art museum.  On special exhibit at the museum were tow collections of drawings and paintings—the first was an expansive collection of Andrew Wyeth watercolors, while the second consisted of a compilation of landscape paintings by […]