HERBERT MORTON STOOPS (1888-1948) CASTLETON CUT - OFF / NEW YORK CENTRAL LINES. 1925. 41x27 inches, 104x68 1/2 cm. Latham Litho & Ptg. Co., Long Island City. Condition B: small losses, repaired tears, overpainting, foxing and multiple pin holes in margins; time-staining at edges; small creases and abrasions in image. Paper. This was New York Central's first poster, issued in July 1925, in a campaign and a series that would cement their reputation as "railroading's most effective advertiser" (Zega p. 63). The poster "Commemorates the commissioning of its massive high-level Hudson River Bridge at Castleton, New York. Herbert Morton Stoops a New York artist best known for his wartime art and western scenes, chose to focus his work on the bulk of the span's soaring concrete piers, atop which a locomotive's steam trail is barely visible" (Zega p. 68). rare . We have found only one other example at auction in the last 20 years. Zega 85.
HERBERT MORTON STOOPS (1888-1948) CASTLETON CUT - OFF / NEW YORK CENTRAL LINES. 1925. 41x27 inches, 104x68 1/2 cm. Latham Litho & Ptg. Co., Long Island City. Condition B: small losses, repaired tears, overpainting, foxing and multiple pin holes in margins; time-staining at edges; small creases and abrasions in image. Paper. This was New York Central's first poster, issued in July 1925, in a campaign and a series that would cement their reputation as "railroading's most effective advertiser" (Zega p. 63). The poster "Commemorates the commissioning of its massive high-level Hudson River Bridge at Castleton, New York. Herbert Morton Stoops a New York artist best known for his wartime art and western scenes, chose to focus his work on the bulk of the span's soaring concrete piers, atop which a locomotive's steam trail is barely visible" (Zega p. 68). rare . We have found only one other example at auction in the last 20 years. Zega 85.
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