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Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
W. WALTER CALVERT (1901-1960)
PLAN YOUR VACATION TRIP BY TRAIN / PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD. Circa 1953.
40x26 1/4 inches, 101 1/2x66 1/2 cm. Condition A: minor expert overpainting at edges.
Calvert was a Buck's County-based illustrator who designed innumerable covers for the Saturday Evening Post, Country Gentlemen, Sports Afield and other publications. He worked with several large advertising agencies in Philadelphia (Al Paul Lefton and N.W. Ayer) through whom he was contracted to design posters for the Pennsylvania Railroad as well as advertisements for Bell Telephone, the Philadelphia Electric Company and other companies. Here, he presents an upwardly-mobile, mid-century modern couple boarding a train. Stylish, well-dressed and sporty, their lifestyle is an admirable promotion for the railway.
