Lot 440: BEN NASON CAPE COD. circa 1945.

42x28 inches.
Condition A-: creases and abrasions in image; repaired tear through bottom margin.
A night and day image of a small New England village on the Massachusetts shore. In the style of some of the great European graphic designers, Nason cleverly employs the light house lamp in a dual role--both to light up the night sky and as the sun on the day time side of the image. One in a series of seven posters issued by the New Haven Railroad after the Second World War promoting New England vacation travel. "During World War Two, heavy military traffic demands forced the New Haven to actively discourage civilians from riding its trains for non-essential purposes. Once the war ended, however, the New Haven railroad set out to recapture the New England vacation travel business with large scale purchases of new passenger equipment and an unprecedented mass marketing campaign" (www.nhrta.org/htdocs/images1199.htm)