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Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
LONIE BEE (1902-1995)
SOUTHERN PACIFIC / SUMMER FARES EAST. Circa 1936.
23x16 inches, 58 1/2x40 1/2 cm. Condition A-: expert overpainting in margins.
"Lonie Bee was born in Santa Rosa, California, and remained there, one of the few major illustrators based on the West Coast . . . he appeared on the national scene with his spirited illustrations for the magazines Collier's, American, Cosmopolitan, Woman's Home Companion, Woman's Day, Good Housekeeping and The Saturday Evening Post; among these, he painted numerous covers" (The Illustrator in America, p. 261). In the mid 1930s he was also a member of the Artist's Guild of San Francisco along with Maynard Dixon and Maurice Logan. We believe this poster, with its atmospheric depiction of the observation car amidst a verdant twilight, is the only image he designed for Southern Pacific. Rare.
