Title - East Coast Craft – Visit Yorkshire – Yorkshire Coble - No 4 - LNER Series of Six.
Location - North or East Yorkshire, England.
Artist - Frank H Mason (1875-1965).
Description - Frank Mason uses his knowledge of the sea and the coast to produce this subtly coloured view of boats, and fishermen working on their nets and crab pots, at an unspecified location. The Yorkshire Coble was the main boat traditionally used along the Yorkshire coast between Whitby and Flamborough, for crab and line fishing, with it's distinctive reddish-brown sail. This is one of 6 posters he created in 1929 as the East Coast Craft series.
Year Published - 1929
Size - Double Royal (approx 40 x 25in or 101.5 x 63.5cm)
Other Details:
Original Vintage LNER British Railway Travel Poster.
Published by The London & North Eastern Railway
Printed in England by Ben Johnson & Co Ltd, Printers, York.
Condition Grade and Condition Report:
Grade: B+, un-conserved.
Creased folds, wear-through at upper central fold-intersection. More detailed photos are available on request if required.
More About The Artist:
Frank H Mason was born Frank Henry Algernon Mason in 1875, in County Durham, the son of a railway clerk. By 1900 he had decided to be a full time artist. During WWI he was a shipping war artist of the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve. A number of his paintings from that period are in the Imperial War Museum. From the 1920s he produced the artwork for a huge number of posters for the railway companies. He was elected to both the Royal Society of British Artists and the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours. He was exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1902 onwards, and is represented in many galleries.