GRIF TELLER (1899-1993)
159
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WASHINGTON / THE CITY BEAUTIFUL / PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD. 1935.
40x25
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/
4
inches, 101
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/
2
x64 cm. O. Co., Clifton, N.J.
Condition B+ / B: expertly restored loss in margin and image; creases in margins, image and text; water stain
in text at bottom.
A wonderful train image from the years when travelling was an art and the locomotive was a design
masterpiece. Here, behind the engine and busy platform, Washington D.C. is indeed a “city beautiful,”
especially when pictured in a montage of images that place the Capitol, the Washington Monument,
the Lincoln Memorial and the Supreme Court in the same view. “A notable Deco-styled poster selling
Washington, D.C. . . . [that] featured the capital’s two latest improvements - the new Supreme Court
Building [opened in 1935] and [the railroad’s] latest streamlined electric locomotive” (Zega p. 109).
The train is Raymond Loewy’s industrial design marvel, the GG-1 electric engine. Zega fig. 139.
[2,000/3,000]
