For your consideration is this original George T. Stagg Co. distillery advertising painting done by the Tweed & Rau Co. of Chicago. This advertisement shows a majestic stag set to a sunrise background with mountains in the distance and a swelling river scene just behind the large stag. George T. Stagg was born December 19, 1835, in Garrard County, Kentucky. When the Civil War ended, Stagg moved with his growing family to St. Louis, Missouri, where he worked as a whiskey salesman in St. Louis. As a salesman Stagg purchased barrels of O.F.C. and slowly grew his relationship with the bourbon icon E.H. Taylor, Jr. When Taylor hit financial hardships, Stagg used this as an opportunity to move from selling whiskey to making it and purchased the O.F.C. Distillery. Stagg & Taylor formed E.H. Taylor, Jr. & Co. with Stagg as the President. Together they built the most dominant American distillery of the 19th century, now known as Buffalo Trace Distillery. The painting is from the early 1900s, and was done by the Tweed & Rau Co. in an assembly style system where one artist would paint the background, another would paint the foreground etc., etc. The condition of this painting is fair as there is a small bit of damage to the lower left portion of the painting. The frame is in good condition overall. The consignor purchased this piece out of Spokane, Washington where it hung proudly for many years in a hotel bar advertising for the George Stagg Co. The measurements of this framed painting advertisement are 51 ½” x 39 ½” and the visible art measures 47 ½” x 37 ¼”.