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Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
GUSTAV W. KROLLMANN (1888-1962) MISSION RANGE / NORTHERN PACIFIC. Circa 1930. 40x30 inches, 102x77 cm. Brown & Bigelow, St. Paul. Condition B+: repaired tears in margins; creases in margins and image. The Northern Pacific's North Coast Limited route was established in the 1880s. Here, engine #2607 (no doubt a personal favorite of Krollmann's as it appears in several of his posters) is steaming across Montana's Mission Valley. Krollman designed a series of posters for the Northern Pacific Railroad using images "that displayed a strong sense of modeling and a richness of color" (Zega p. 83). Few other biographical details are known about the artist except that he was of Austrian descent and that he settled in Minneapolis where he taught at the Minneapolis Institute of Art.
