?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
HERBERT MORTON STOOPS (1888-1948)
CASTLETON CUT - OFF / NEW YORK CENTRAL LINES. 1925.
40 1/4x26 1/4 inches, 102 1/4x66 1/2 cm. Latham Litho. & Ptg. Co., Long Island City. Condition A-: minor repaired tears and creases at edges; creases and abrasions along vertical and horizontal folds.
This was New York Central's first poster, issued in July 1925, in a campaign and a series that would cement its reputation as "railroading's most effective advertiser" (Zega p. 63). The poster "commemorates the commissioning of its massive high-level Hudson River Bridge at Castleton, New York. Herbert Morton Stoops, a New York artist best known for his wartime art and western scenes, chose to focus his work on the bulk of the span's soaring concrete piers, atop which a locomotive's steam trail is barely visible" (Zega p. 68). Rare. We have found only four other examples at auction in the last 20 years. Zega 85.
