?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
PETER EWART (1918-2001)
CANADIAN PACIFIC. 1952.
36x24 inches, 91 1/2x61 cm. Condition B+: repaired tears, creases, abrasions and overpainting at edges; creases, abrasions and restoration in image.
One of several train portrait-posters that Ewart designed for Canadian Pacific, depicting a General Motors Diesel FP7A, which was put into service in 1951. Ewart studied as a commercial designer in both Montreal and New York City and designed his first poster for the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1939. Ewart worked for the Canadian Pacific Railway for 20 years and created more than 24 different posters for the company. Canadian Pacific p. 21, Furness vol. 8, p. 129, Affiches Chemin de Fer p. 124.
