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ARTHUR C. RADEBAUGH UNITED AIR LINES / THE MAIN LINE AIRWAY COAST-TO-COAST. Circa 1938. 421/2x27 inches. Condition B+: minor losses along lower left edge; creases in margins; light foxing in image. Paper. One of the most progressive American airplane posters ever designed, and a masterpiece of mid-century American Modernism and Machine-Age airbrushing. 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, Motor and Advertising Agency, and produced advertising for Coke and United Airlines as well as creating a lot of advertisments for the auto industry. His trademark style was the ulitmate 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." The plane in this poster is a Douglas DC-3 (http://www.palaceofculture.org/rad_world_fair_war.html#). For more complete information on his fascinating career and work there is an interesting on-line exhibition: http://www.palaceofculture.org/radebaugh.html.
