PETER EWART (1918-2001)
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CANADIAN PACIFIC. 1952.
35
3
/
4
x23
3
/
4
inches, 90
1
/
2
x60
1
/
2
cm.
Condition B+: restored loss along right edge, affecting image; restoration in upper right corner.
One of several train portrait-posters that Ewart designed for Canadian Pacific, depicting a General
Motors Diesel FP7A, which was put into service in 1951. Ewart worked for the Canadian Pacific Railway
for 20 years and created more than 24 different posters for the company. Canadian Pacific p. 21.
[800/1,200]
PETER EWART (1918-2001)
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CANADA’S MARITIMES / TRAVEL CANADIAN PACIFIC. Circa 1940.
36x24
1
/
2
inches, 91
1
/
2
x62 cm.
Condition B+: repaired tears and restoration at edges; abrasions in image. Silkscreen.
Not in Canadian Pacific.
[800/1,200]
DESIGNER UNKNOWN
156
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MONTAUK BEACH. Circa 1929.
25x19
1
/
4
inches, 63
1
/
2
x49 cm. Winchell Publicity Service, New York.
Condition B: repaired tears, restoration and overpainting in margins and image.
F. Scott Fitzgerald coined the phrase “The Jazz Age” to refer to the 1920s. He went on to epitomize the
era in his classic novel “The Great Gatsby,” which was published in 1925. In 1929, a movie called the
“The Jazz Age” was released. It seemed as though everyone was capitalizing on this new period of
excitement and wealth including poster designers, who as we see here, played straight to the Gatsby-set.
The development of Montauk in the mid 1920s was solely attributed to one rather extraordinary
entrepreneur named Carl Fisher. Amongst Fisher’s previous accomplishments was the almost single-
handed development of Miami Beach into an international destination for America’s wealthiest families.
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