?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
BEN NASON (1915-?)
MARTHA'S VINEYARD / THE NEW HAVEN RAILROAD. Circa 1941.
41x27 inches, 104x68 1/2 cm. Condition B: repaired tear through central image; repaired tears and small replaced losses in margins and text; creases in margins and image.
Here the simple images of brightly-colored, gingerbread-style houses and small waterfront fishing shacks do much to promote the island as an ideal family vacation spot. The railroad actually delivered passengers to Woods Hole, where a ferry transported the travellers to the island itself. The enormous figurehead that bisects the image is a romanticized reminder of the whaling ships that populated the island's history. MoMA 104.1944.
