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Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
JOHN HELD, JR. (1889-1958) THE ENCHANTED ISLE / MARTHA'S VINEYARD. 1934. 41 1/4x27 3/4 inches, 104 3/4x70 1/2 cm. Plampin Litho. Co. Inc., New York City. Condition B+: discoloration, creases and restored losses at edges; minor abrasions in image. "In 1924, [The New Haven Railroad] commissioned New York City artist John Held, Jr. to design a series of posters selling New England resorts and vacations . . . Held, a well known delineator of eastern establishment culture whose Vanity Fair and Life magazine illustrations and cartoons introduced two of the era's defining caricatures--the happy-go-lucky flapper and her straw-hatted guy, Joe College-- proved a prescient choice. His New Haven designs talked to the new, jazzy cultural elite" (Zega p. 63). Zega p. 66.
