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Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,000
WILLIAM P. WELSH (1889-1984) TRAVEL AT REDUCED RATES TO YOUR FAVORITE WINTER RESORT IN PULLMAN. Circa 1935. 26 3/4x20 1/4 inches, 68x51 1/2 cm. Charles Daniel Frey Company, Chicago. Condition B / B+: extensive expert overpainting in margins; small replaced losses, repaired tears and creases at edges; creases in text. "Between 1935 and 1938, Pullman vice-president James Kelly, who had long been fascinated by European travel posters, commissioned nearly a dozen poster designs by Chicago artist William P. Welsh . . . Welsh had studied at the Academie Julien in Paris and had made a name for himself painting the mural decorations in the Chicago Room of that city's famed Palmer House . . . [for this series] he bathed his subjects in brilliant color and rendered their surroundings in Art Deco-styled patterns" (Zega p. 109). Affiches Chemin de Fer p. 172.
