?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
WILLIAM WELSH (1889-1984)
OLD KING SUN IS BECKONING / . . . GO IN PULLMAN. 1936.
26 1/4x20 3/4 inches, 66 1/2x52 3/4 cm. Charles Daniel Frey, Chicago. Condition B+: replaced losses, overpainting and repaired tears at edges; minor creases and restoration in image.
A myriad of summer leisure-time activities - tennis, golf, fishing, swimming, sailing and more - arrayed in triplicate around the center figure. "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" (Zega p. 109). Welsh designed another poster for Pullman touting winter pleasures under the auspices of "Old King Snow."
