FRENCH LINE / PLYMOUTH DIRECT TO NEW YORK. Circa 1920s.
30x24 3/4 inches, 76 1/4x62 3/4 cm. D'Impressions d'Art Pierre Lafitte. Condition B+ / A-: repaired tears, creases and restoration in margins and text; slight foxing in upper text; minor creases in image.
Rodmell enrolled into 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. These included Canadian Pacific, French Line, Swedish Lloyd, Shaw-Saville and Albion Line, General Steam Navigation Co., Royal Holland Lloyd, and Norddeutscher Lloyd Bremen. Note the red, white and blue of the French tricolor in the sky.
