SASCHA MAURER (1897-1961) WASHINGTON / PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD. Circa 1940.
40 3/4x25 inches, 103 1/2x63 1/2 cm.
Condition A-: minor restoration in margins; minor abrasions in image.
Maurer worked for several of the most prominent Eastern American Railroad companies. Throughout his career, he made posters for the New York Central Line, The Pennsylvania Railroad and the New Haven Railroad. Maurer was "proud of the wartime poster Washington, which framed the capitol dome with a single Doric column, his metaphor for the solidity of Democracy" (Zega p. 114). rare