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Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
HERBERT MORTON STOOPS (1888-1948)
ASHTABULA HARBOR / LAKE ERIE / NEW YORK CENTRAL LINES. 1926.
40 3/4x27 1/4 inches, 103 1/2x69 1/4 cm. Latham Litho & Ptg. Co., Long Island City. Condition B / B+: replaced losses in top corners; repaired tears in margins; extensive creases and minor abrasions in margins and image; repaired pin holes in corners.
For this, the second of his two posters for the New York Central, Stoops illustrated an industrial and active scene of the busy harbor in Ashtabula, Ohio, on Lake Erie, "where trainloads of Appalachian coal are exchanged for cargoes of Northern iron ore." Stoops was an illustrator and painter, whose works graced the insides and outsides of some of America's most popular periodicals during the 1920s and 1930s, especially The Blue Book magazine. He also designed several posters for the American World War II war effort. Zega 86.
