Nov 11, 2002 - Sale 1951

Sale 1951 - Lot 82

Price Realized: $ 5,060
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
MAURICE LOGAN SOUTHERN PACIFIC. Group of 6 posters. 1928 and 1929.
Each approximately 23x16 inches.
Condition varies, generally B+: stains, pinholes and creases in corners; abrasions, folds and creases in some images.
A visual travelogue of Southern Pacific's routes, encompassing the Tahoe Lake Region, Redwood Empire Tour, Crater Lake, Carriso Gorge, California Big Trees and The Alamo. In 1917, Logan and five other California painters joined together to form the "Society of Six", a group of artists whose work was categorized first and foremost by bold colors. "Considered outsiders in their time, their work is now recognized as part of the vital and enduring lineage of American art." As early as 1923, Maurice Logan was designing posters for the Southern Pacific Railway, but in the late 1920s, the Railway began to reproduce his popular paintings. Zega p. 64.