Illustrative art sits between drawing and painting. Shapes are simplified, outlines are clean, and color is laid down in flat, confident areas, so a piece reads clearly from across the room. This collection of illustrative wall art covers travel-poster cityscapes, folk-art color, street maps and graffiti-style pieces, mostly in vertical formats that are easy to group on a gallery wall.
Cities in poster style
Miami Art Deco District turns Ocean Drive into a vintage travel poster: pastel buildings in coral, mint and butter yellow, leaning palms and 1950s cars in golden light. San Antonio Fiesta Colors goes folk art, with the Alamo in warm peach, papel picado banners and string lights across a navy sky, and patterned sombreros below. Madison State Street Vibes lines rust, gold and sage storefronts under the capitol dome, framed by fall leaves. Lincoln Downtown Streetscape washes the skyline in honey and amber above dark tree silhouettes, and Omaha Urban Aesthetic sweeps amber and navy strokes around the city in a retro-futuristic mood.
City maps
Washington DC Map Vintage shows the capital's diagonal avenues cutting across the grid on aged parchment in warm browns and ambers. Phoenix Arizona Map Design lays the street grid over a watercolor wash from desert gold to teal, Grand Avenue slicing diagonally through it. Cleveland Ohio Map Design traces the Cuyahoga through downtown in deep navy on warm birch, where the grid meets the Lake Erie shoreline.
Street art and bold color
Miami Wynwood Murals, the one horizontal, splashes turquoise, hot pink and yellow lettering across weathered buildings. Austin Artistic Graffiti stacks glossy arrows in pink, blue, yellow and orange over a dark ground. Houston Bold Graffiti shows a hand making a peace sign, covered in neon tags and drips, and Garland Vibrant Streets breaks a street into magenta, gold and teal shards, silhouettes walking through the fractured light.
Choosing an illustrated piece
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Home office: a city map adds a personal note above a desk.
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Nursery: Marietta Baby Room Bliss floats a bunny and an elephant in a balloon basket, in soft sage, peach and lavender.
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Teen room or game room: the graffiti pieces bring the most energy.
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Gallery wall: hang two or three poster cities in the same size, about 2 inches apart.
Love graphic color? See our pop art and street art collections, the travel posters in vintage wall art, or the single-stroke pieces in line art.
