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WILLIAM HAINES HALL (1903-1977) CROSSING GREAT SALT LAKE ON SOUTHERN PACIFIC. 1940. 23x16 inches, 58 1/2x40 1/2 cm. Condition B+: repaired tears at edges into image; creases in margins and image; restored loss in lower left corner. Hall was a commercial artist who worked in San Francisco. Along with Maynard Dixon and Maurice Logan, who also designed posters for the Southern Pacific, Hall was an active member of The Thirteen Watercolorists (which eventually became the Society of Western Artists). Although he allegedly designed posters for San Francisco's Bohemian Club, of which he was a member, none have yet surfaced. The Southern Pacific Railroad began advertising their streamlined trains via posters in 1936. Zega 142.
