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BERN HILL (1911-1977). SEE MORE ON THE VISTA DOME / CALIFORNIA ZEPHYR. Circa 1950s. 24x18 inches, 61x45 cm.
24x18 inches, 61x45 1/2 cm.
Condition A. Paper.
Bern Hill was a graphic designer and a painter. "At the end of 1949, General Motors' Electro-Motive Division embarked on a rather radical advertising campaign which included vertical format streamline style paintings for the covers of Railway Age [Magazine]" (Vintage Rails, January / February 1998, p. 64). Between 1950 and 1956, Hill created sixty-five paintings for the campaign. "Electro-Motive also produced a series of very high-grade posters of Hill's paintings that were overwritten by the marketing theme for that particular railroad . . . it is unknown if all 65 paintings were turned into posters. . . . Hill's assignment was to portray the 'feel' of each railroad in a scene that often captured the landscape of the individual road and gave the viewer the sense of that road's missions - freight, passenger or switching" (Railroad Heritage, No. 6, 2002, p. 10). Zega p. 131.
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