May 09, 2013 - Sale 2313

Sale 2313 - Lot 140

Price Realized: $ 7,800
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
(ART DIRECTORS' FÊTE BOOK.) Presentation album gifted to Frederick J. Suhr, President of the Art Directors' Club, at their Third Annual Dinner on April 11, 1924. The album contains 90 original works of art in various mediums, each tipped or loosely mounted to a page; Program sheet laid in. Thick folio, full gilt-lettered navy morocco, tips and spine ends bumped and with some rubbing and a few faint scuffs. New York, 1924

Additional Details

A rich and comprehensive tribute to Suhr, a clearly beloved President, with original works by important illustrators and artists of the day, many Inscribed and Signed to Suhr.

Including: Charles Dana Gibson, ink drawing of a classic Gibson Girl Tony Sarg, watercolor drawing Martin Lewis, etching with sand ground ("The Roustabout," 1916, Signed and Inscribed to Suhr) Harry Marx Heyworth Campbell Wynne Murphy Harry Lees George Bonté Louis Musgrove Henry (Harry) Quinan Herbert Roese DeAlton Valentine Henry Dorr Steele James Chapin and many others.