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Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,000
TOM PURVIS (1888-1959)
ROBIN HOOD'S BAY / YORKSHIRE BY LNER. Circa 1936.
29 3/4x25 inches, 75 1/2x63 1/2 cm. Chorley & Pickersgill Ltd., Leeds. Condition A: unobtrusive vertical and horizontal folds.
Purvis' work for the British Railroads was exclusively for the LNER. His use of "flat primary colors and the elimination of detail" (Railway p. 135) was his graphic calling card and what he is most appreciated for. This poster is one in a series of six that Purvis designed advertising travel to towns and seaside resorts along Britain's eastern coast - Robin Hoods Bay, Clacton-on-Sea, Skegness, Bamburgh, Lowestoft and Scarborough. The series is immediately recognizable, as each boasts flourishes of architectural detail amidst broadly outlined landscapes in unexpected twilight colors. Like the series he designed in 1931 promoting "East Coast Joys," the posters in this series could be used on their own or together with the others. When viewed side by side they form a continuous, panoramic strip of coastline. Furness vol. 4, p. 209, Century of Posters p. 58.
