Nov 18, 2009 - Sale 2196

Sale 2196 - Lot 40

Price Realized: $ 1,140
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
DESIGNER UNKNOWN [ROCK ISLAND.] Painted photograph, mixed-media maquette. Circa 1940.
17 1/2x14 inches, 44x36 cm.
Condition A- / A+: minor staining in image. Matted. Painted on board.
The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway Company stretched from Chicago to points West and South. This photographic collage and gouache image represents one of the line's diesel-powered "Rocket" streamliners, designed by Otto Kuhler, which went into service in 1937.