HAWAII BY FLYING CLIPPER / PAN AMERICAN AIRWAYS SYSTEM. 1939.
27½x38¾ inches, 69¾x98½ cm. Condition A-: unobtrusive expert airbrushing in margins and around text; minor restoration along creases in image.
Passengers are deplaning the larger-than-life Honolulu Clipper, each smiling at the warm island welcome they are receiving. Considered "one of the most coveted airline posters [this image] celebrates the arrival in Honolulu from San Francisco of Pan American's most advanced, largest and last flying boat, the Boeing 314. Faster, pressurized landplanes would soon make it obsolete, but the Boeing 314 briefly took transoceanic flying to a new level of luxury with its dining lounge, sleeping berths for everyone and aft honeymoon suite" (Airways p. 80). Previously attributed to Frank MacIntosh, a brochure from 1939 features this image on the cover, with Lawler's signature in the lower right corner. A variant of this poster bears the text "San Francisco - Hawaii Overnight / Via Pan Am - to the Orient. Rare.
Airways p. 80, Airlines p. 6, Pan Am pp. 110-111 (var).
