New York Central Original Travel Poster Chicago
- 1929
- Leslie Ragan (1987-1972)
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27 x 41 inches ~ (68 x 104 cm)$8,950
- Linen backed
Linen backing is the industry standard of conservation. Canvas is stretchered and a sheet of acid free barrier paper is laid down. The poster is then pasted to the acid free paper using an acid free paste. This process is fully reversible and gives support to the poster. A border of linen is left around the poster and can be used by a framer to mount the poster so that nothing touches the poster itself.
The price of this poster includes linen backing.
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This was Ragan's first poster for the New York Central Lines, "a cityscape of Chicago's Michigan Avenue dominated by a towering midday thunderhead . . . [in which he conveyed his newly-emerging style with] reflected light and building mass" (Zega p. 95). It shows the city's original Peristyle, designed by Edward H. Bennett, which was erected in Grant Park in 1917 and survived until it was razed in the early 1950s due to poor condition. The impressive architecture of the North Michigan Avenue streetwall features the Wiloughby and Montgomery Ward Towers. Zega 119.
What a great poster, A condition, folded as original, and has very faint remnants of fold lines.
