Sale 2459 - Rare & Important Travel Posters, October 26, 2017

WILLIAM HAINES HALL (1903-1977) 209 c CROSSING GREAT SALT LAKE ON SOUTHERN PACIFIC. 1940. 23x16 inches, 58 1 / 2 x40 1 / 2 cm. Condition A. Paper. Hall was a commercial artist who worked in San Francisco. He was an active member of The Thirteen Watercolorists (which eventually became the Society of Western Artists) along with Maynard Dixon and Maurice Logan, who also designed posters for the Southern Pacific. Although he allegedly designed posters for San Francisco’s Bohemian Club, of which he was a member, none have yet surfaced. The Southern Pacific Railroad began advertising their streamlined trains via posters in 1936. Zega 142. [1,200/1,800]