Nov 10, 2003 - Sale 1984

Sale 1984 - Lot 60

Price Realized: $ 2,070
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
TOM HALL HUNT BIG GAME IN CANADA. 1938.
36x24 inches.
Condition B+: restored losses in margins; repaired tears in margins and image. Silk-screen.
An Englishman who was trained in New York at the Art Student's League, Hall moved to Canada in 1907. He was a commercial graphic designer who worked for several firms including Canadian Pacific. "His main area of expertise was painting wildlife . . his 1941 duck hunting poster . . . became a favorite, but it was his 1938 grizzly poster that won him the Transit Advertisers' award for the finest poster in the travel division" (Canadian Pacific p. 71-2). Canadian Pacific np.