Feb 05, 2013 - Sale 2302

Sale 2302 - Lot 302

Unsold
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
STEPHEN J. VOORHIES (DATES UNKNOWN) SKI AT MT. MANSFIELD / CENTRAL VERMONT RAILWAY. Circa 1960.
40x24 3/4 inches, 101 1/2x63 cm. Grueer Display Co., New York.
Condition B+: repaired tears and restoration in margins and image; abrasions in image. Silkscreen.
One in a series by the artist for the Central Vermont Railway. The central figure in each poster is a smuggler, a historic reference to Smuggler's Notch, which earned its name as a trail used by smugglers before the war of 1812 (avoiding an import tax on British goods) and during Prohibition. It opened for skiing in 1956.