JEROME GEORGE ROZEN (1895-1987) VACATION BEGINS WHEN YOU STEP ABOARD THE TRAIN! / PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD. Circa 1948.
40x25 inches, 102x63 1/2 cm.
Condition B+: replaced losses and restoration in corners; repaired tear through bottom margin, affecting text.
Rozen was a pulp magazine cover illustrator (including for The Shadow), and a World War II poster artist. In the late 1940s, he did a series of print ads for the Pennsylvania Railroad featuring optimistic renditions of the "American Family." All of his work reflects his love of illustration art, most of which was realized as magazine ads. Very few of his railroad posters have come to market. rare.