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Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,000
WALTER BOMAR (1918-1988)
AMERICAN AIRLINES / JET POWERED ELECTRA FLAGSHIPS. Circa 1959.
40x30 1/2 inches, 101 1/2x77 1/2 cm. Condition A-: expert overpainting in upper left corner;. minor restoration at edges.
The Electras (Lockheed L-188s) were America's first turboprop airplanes. They could achieve speeds of almost a hundred miles-per-hour faster than the piston-powered aircraft of the early 1950s. American Airlines began flying the planes in 1959. By the mid-1970s, due to a number of crashes and technical difficulties, most of the Electras had been retired from service. Walter Bomar was a prolific graphic artist, illustrator, poster designer and painter. Huhne p. 133.
