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Property from a Private California Collection

Thornton Utz

Last Train Home

Session begins in

May 20, 06:00 PM GMT

Estimate

20,000 - 30,000 USD

Bid

18,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private California Collection

Thornton Utz

1914 - 1999


Last Train Home

signed Utz (lower left)

oil on paperboard

25 by 19 ⅝ in.

63.5 by 49.8 cm.

Executed in 1954.

Martin Ackerman, New York

Private Collection (acquired from the above circa 1968)

Thence by descent to the present owner

The Saturday Evening Post, 2 January 1954, illustrated in color on the cover

Jan Cohn, Covers of the Saturday Evening Post: Seventy Years of Outstanding Illustration from America’s Favorite Magazine, New York, 1995, p. 239, illustrated in color

The present work was published as the cover illustration of the January 2nd, 1954 issue of The Saturday Evening Post.