?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
HARRY HUDSON RODMELL (1896-1984)
FISHGUARD - CORK / THE "INNISFALLEN" WAY. Circa 1935.
31 1/4x25 inches, 79 1/2x63 1/2 cm. Condition B+: replaced bottom margin; text trimmed off at bottom; repaired tear at top edge, slightly into image; minor creases and abrasions in margins and image.
Rodmell enrolled in the Hull School of Art in 1912, and that same year, designed his first magazine cover. More than just a maritime artist, he was also a very active commercial designer. In addition to his paintings, his artistic legacy is filled with magazine covers, posters, calendars and tide tables. "His work for the ocean liner industry was prodigious and his images graced the posters of more than sixty-five companies" (Rodmell p. 20). These included Canadian Pacific, French Line, Swedish Lloyd, Shaw-Saville and Albion Line, General Steam Navigation Co., Royal Holland Lloyd, and Norddeutscher Lloyd Bremen. The Innisfallen was built in Belfast by the Coast Lines Group in 1930 and ran frequent routes between Cork and Fishguard in Wales, as well as offering weekend tours. It was sunk by a German mine in 1940.
