Nov 23, 2021 - Sale 2589

Sale 2589 - Lot 246

Price Realized: $ 1,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800

PETER EWART (1918-2001)

TRAVEL CANADIAN PACIFIC. Circa 1955.


40x25 inches, 101 1/2x63 1/2 cm.
Condition B+: expert airbrushing in upper and lower background; minor restoration at edges.

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 Railway for 20 years and created more than 24 different posters for the company. The "stainless steel luxury transcontinental called The Canadian, with it's scenic observation dome, [was] inaugurated on April 15, 1955." This is the English version. Canadian Pacific p. 62 (var), Choko p. 302.