WILLIAM H BULL (1861 1940) SHASTA ROUTE FOUR TRAINS DAILY

Sale 2621 - Lot 105

Price Realized: $ 5,750

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000

WILLIAM H. BULL (1861-1940)

SHASTA ROUTE / FOUR TRAINS DAILY / SOUTHERN PACIFIC. 1922.

23 1/4x16 inches, 59x40 3/4 cm.
Condition A-: minor repaired tears, creases and abrasions at edges.

William H. Bull moved from Buffalo, New York to California in 1882, where he "became the in-house artist for [Southern Pacific] and, beginning in 1898, its pioneering booster-magazine venture, Sunset. He specialized in illustrations that emphasized the vast, romantic West, numerous examples of which ran as Sunset magazine covers and were also produced as newsstand posters" (Zega, p. 15). The Shasta Route was also called "The Road of a Thousand Wonders," five of which are depicted here. Rare. We could locate only one other copy at auction in the last 23 years. Zega p. 58.

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From the collection of Victor Ryerson.