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Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,000
WILLIAM P. WELSH (1889-1984) VACATION LANDS ARE CALLING . . . / GO IN PULLMAN. 1936. 26 1/4x21 1/4 inches, 66 3/4x54 cm. Charles Daniel Frey Co., Chicago. Condition B: waterstaining in lower text; sharp creases in margins; varnish crackling in left margin; minor abrasions at edges; bottom margin slightly trimmed; metal strip at top for hanging. Paper. "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). Most of the images in the series depicted beautiful women engaged in leisurely activities against a geometrically-rendered, nature-inspired background. This is the most Art Deco-influenced design of the series, with a vacationing woman fly-fishing in a pool of patterned water, at the foot of an elegant waterfall. Fish serve as a decorative border element.
