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The Train Takes You II: Posters and Pairings for the Virtual Traveler
Special Collections Gallery
Charles Marvin Fairchild Memorial Gallery
Introduction
The Booth Family Center for Special Collections celebrates the fall 2020 semester with an exhibition for the armchair traveler. The selections represent the golden age of travel between the two World Wars and into the 1950s, when travel by land was primarily via rail and locomotives had transitioned from steam to electric power. During this period a number of independent rail lines were amalgamated into fewer, major railway companies that commissioned vibrant, colorful posters advertising the allure of glamorous destinations. With its title drawn from one of the posters, The Train Takes You includes posters previously displayed in a 2010 Library exhibition. Following our renovation and expansion in 2015, the current exhibition is augmented by additional works depicting related views and subjects. With foreign travel currently restricted, now is the perfect time to revisit these majestic locales and begin planning the long-awaited post-pandemic vacation.
The nineteen posters featured online and currently on display in the Library represent the U.K., France, the United States, Australia, South Africa and Switzerland. Complementary works include an important Alpine painting by American landscapist Sanford Gifford, and a recently acquired prize-winning color woodcut by British artist John Platt, along with varied prints and ephemera.
While most of the advertising posters we see today are photographically designed, their predecessors relied on the eye of the artist to embellish upon or artfully extract from the beauty of nature. Whether targeting a domestic or an international clientele, these vivid lithographic posters employ minimal use of text, relying on idealized illustration, sometimes with a catchy phrase, to encourage viewers to book their next exciting trip abroad.
These rare and pictur SOLD Lisa Blue Baron, Dallas, Texas Jacques Bailly, Jean Dufy: Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre, vol. I, Paris, 2002, no. B.62, illustrated p. 125 Jean Dufy’s lengthy career encompassed both design and painting during a period of time characterized primarily by warfare and its subsequent repercussions. He was born in Le Havre, France, on March 12, 1888, to Léon Dufy and Marie Eugénie Ida Dufy, the seventh of eleven children. His father was an accountant for a metallurgy company, which allowed him to provide for his ever expanding family, and he was also a gifted musician who would eventually become the official organist of Notre Dame church in Le Havre. All of the Dufy children would receive an exceptional musical education, and the eldest son Léon would become a professional organist. Raoul also played the organ while the third son Gaston was a talented flautist while Jean, the youngest son, took up both piano and guitar. La Mer Paris, France Signoret (1867 - 1932); Adam Styka (1890 - 1959); Sydney Lough Thompson (1877 - 1973); Raymond Wintz (1884 - 1956); Albert Worcester (1878 - 1935); - Peinture, Sculpture, Dessin, Aquarelles, Gouache, Pastelle Salon d'Automne 1907 - 5ième Exposition (1/10) - 'Peinture, Sculpture, Dessin, Aquarelles, Gouache, Pastelle' Paris, France Benderly; Édouard Bénédictus (1878 - 1930); Benoît Bénoni-Auran (1859 - 1944); John M. Bruère (1880 - 1943); Marie P. Poitevin; Pauline Pollak; Gabrielle Portait-Darcy; Jane Poupelet (1874 - 1932); René Prath; Paul Louis Prud'homme (1883); Gaston Prunier (1863 - 1927); Léon Victor de la Quintinie (1875); Marguerite Raigné-Navellier (1877); Alfredo Ramos Martínez (1872 - 1946); France Raphael (1877 - 1962); Richard Ranft (1862 - 1931); Constantin Rausch de Fraubenberg; Odilon Redon (1840 - 1916); Georges Redon (1869 - 1943); J. 11th Annual Exhibition at the Carnegie Institute Pitttsburgh, United States Bonsall (1868 - 1959); Joseph-Félix Bouchor (1853 - 1937); Eugène Louis Boudin (1824 - 1898); Bernard Boutet de Monvel (1884 - 1949); Olga von Boznańska (1865 - 1940); Frank Bramley (1857 - 1915); Sir Frank Brangwyn (1867 - 1956); Italico Brass (1870 - 1943); Hugh Henry Breckenridge (1870 - 1937); George-Hendrik Breitner (1857 - 1923); Jacques Brissaud ( .Jean Dufy
(1888 - 1964)
Quai de la Planchette a Honfleur
Oil on canvas
19 3/4 x 25 1/2 inches
Signed
Rehs Galleries, Inc., New York City
Like his brothers and sisters, Jean Dufy attended the public schools in Le Havre, receiving his certificate d’études primaries élémentaire on July 9, 1901. [i] From there he went on to study for his certificate d’études primaries supérieures, focusing on business. His father, however, could not afford to fund his continuing education, and at age sixteen, Dufy began working for an export company. He described the office environment in which he found himself as “stifling, although my job as a commercial agent meant I spent time at the harbor among all the exotic products being unloaded from the cargo ships like so much treasure.” [ii] This world of travel and adventure was faithfully recorded in Dufy’s sketchbooks where he captured the daily activities of loading and unloading Offers/RequestsExhibition AnnouncementS / G Solo/Group Exhibitions (..) Exhibitions + Favorites La Mer
Galerie Devambez G Jun 1922 - Jun 1922 Paris (310) +0 Salon d'Automne 1907 - 5ième Exposition (1/10)
Salon d'Automne 1907 S Oct 1907 - Oct 1907 Paris (10) +0 11th Annual Exhibition at the Carnegie Institute
Carnegie Museum of Art - CMOA G Apr 1907 - Jun 1907 Pitttsburgh (53) +0 Beatty, John Wesley (Curator) +0