Apr 24 at 12:00 PM - Sale 2702 -

Sale 2702 - Lot 30

Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000

ARTHUR C. RADEBAUGH (1906-1974)

UNITED AIR LINES / THE MAIN LINE AIRWAY COAST - TO - COAST. 1938.

42½x27½ inches, 108x69¾ cm.
Condition B+: losses in lower left margin; small repaired tears and creases at edges.

This highly-detailed, realistic depiction of a Douglas DC-3 taking off is a masterpiece of mid-century American Modernism and Machine-Age airbrush technique. Radebaugh's love of the airbrush began with his studies at the Art Institute in Chicago. Although virtually unknown in the poster community, he became a prolific illustrator for magazines including Esquire, Fortune, and Motor magazines, and produced advertising for Coke and United Airlines as well as the auto industry. His trademark style was the ultimate in "luminous Art Deco . . . a sense of industrial design that was both pragmatic and prescient; he took what was cutting edge . . . and made them more elegant, functional and fantastical to behold" (http://arthur-radebaugh.blogspot.com/).

Crouse p. 19, Weill / Art Deco p. 94.
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