Aug 05, 2015 - Sale 2389

Sale 2389 - Lot 491

Price Realized: $ 1,375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
BEN NASON (1915-?) CONNECTICUT / THE NEW HAVEN RAILROAD. Circa 1945.
42 1/2x28 inches, 108x71 cm.
Condition B+: extensive overpainting in margins and text; repaired tears at edges, some into image; restored losses at edges; creases in margins and image.
The New Haven Railroad presented a bucolic countryside scene in an attempt to lure passengers. Here a snaky "S" of a river is coursing its way through green Connecticut fields, past red, white and brown towns, farms and bridges.