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Samuel Hyde Harris
Southern Pacific’s New Daylight (poster)circa 1937

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Lithograph travel poster with a dramatically foreshortened red and black streamlined locomotive on a green hillside, text reads 'Southern Pacific's New Daylight, Los Angeles - San Francisco'
Designer
Samuel Hyde Harris
England, Middlesex, Brentford, active United States, California, Los Angeles, 1889-1977
Made for
Southern Pacific Company
United States, California, San Francisco, founded 1865
Title
Southern Pacific’s New Daylight (poster)
Place Made
United States
Date Made
circa 1937
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
Image: 22 1/2 × 15 5/8 in. Sheet: 22 7/8 × 16 in. Primary support: 26 3/8 × 19 3/8 in.
Credit Line
Gift of Debbie and Mark Attanasio in memory of Martin Kaplan
Accession Number
M.2010.113.1
Classification
Prints
Collecting Area
Decorative Arts and Design
Selected Bibliography
  • Kaplan, Wendy, ed. California Design, 1930-1965: Living in a Modern Way. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2011.
  • Tigerman, Bobbye, ed. A Handbook of California Design, 1930-1965: Craftspeople, Designers, Manufacturers. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2013.
  • Kaplan, Wendy, ed. Living in a Modern Way: California Design, 1930-1965. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2013.
Selected Exhibition History
  • California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way". October 1, 2011 - June 3, 2012
Copyright
© Sam Hyde Harris–Harris Art Works, Pasadena, CA, courtesy Harris Art Works and Union Pacific

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