HERBERT MORTON STOOPS (1888-1948) ASHTABULA HARBOR / LAKE ERIE / NEW YORK CENTRAL LINES. 1926. 40x25 3/4 inches, 101 1/2x65 1/2 cm. Latham Litho & Ptg. Co., Long Island City. Condition B / B-: repaired tears, creases, abrasions and overpainting in margins and image; replaced losses in margins; paint flaking in upper image. Mounted on Chartex. For this second and final image for the New York Central, Stoops illustrated an industrial and active scene of the busy harbor in Ashtabula, Ohio, on Lake Erie, "where trainloads of Appalachian coal are exchanged for cargoes of Northern iron ore." Stoops was an illustrator and painter, whose works graced the insides and outsides of some of America's most popular periodicals during the 1920s and 1930s, especially The Blue Book magazine. He also designed several posters for the American World War II war effort. Zega 86.
HERBERT MORTON STOOPS (1888-1948) ASHTABULA HARBOR / LAKE ERIE / NEW YORK CENTRAL LINES. 1926. 40x25 3/4 inches, 101 1/2x65 1/2 cm. Latham Litho & Ptg. Co., Long Island City. Condition B / B-: repaired tears, creases, abrasions and overpainting in margins and image; replaced losses in margins; paint flaking in upper image. Mounted on Chartex. For this second and final image for the New York Central, Stoops illustrated an industrial and active scene of the busy harbor in Ashtabula, Ohio, on Lake Erie, "where trainloads of Appalachian coal are exchanged for cargoes of Northern iron ore." Stoops was an illustrator and painter, whose works graced the insides and outsides of some of America's most popular periodicals during the 1920s and 1930s, especially The Blue Book magazine. He also designed several posters for the American World War II war effort. Zega 86.
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