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In addition to his posters for the North Shore Line, Hanson also designed posters for the South Shore Line and the Chicago Rapid Transit Company, illustrating destinations one could reach by elevated train and subway. He is credited with designing 29 posters between 1923 and his death at an early age a few years later. His compositions and graphic style set him among the best of American designers from the period. One of the three posters by Hanson held in the Library of Congress. (http://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/oscar-rabe-hanson-1901-1926-.-polo-by-the-nort-183-c-95b793dc98)
Chicago artist and illustrator. He exhibited at the Society of Independent Artists and the Salons of America in the 1930s. (https://www.treadwaygallery.com/ONLINECATALOGS/MARCH2006/0601-0700.html)
Died at age 25 in 1926 of an accidental gunshot wound in northern Wisconsin. (http://jjsedelmaier.com/09%20new%20design/images/PDF/Print02.pdf) undefined