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Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
WILLIAM LAWSON (DATES UNKNOWN)
SAN FRANCISCO VIA MAINLINER / UNITED AIR LINES. Circa 1953.
30x20 1/4 inches, 76 1/4x51 1/2 cm. Condition B: extensive restoration over creases and abrasions throughout image; minor repaired tears and restoration at edges.
To achieve the starkly modern vision of the Bay Bridge, Lawson deftly incorporates the use of an airbrush, rendering the multi-span structure itself, along with the distant rolling hills of Berkeley. From the plane's call numbers we know it to be a DC-7, which went into service for United in the early 1950s. It was the first commercial aircraft to make a non-stop flight against the headwinds from the East Coast of America to the West Coast. Rare.
