Mar 20, 2025 - Sale 2697

Sale 2697 - Lot 397

Price Realized: $ 688
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(WOMEN'S HISTORY--BEAUTY.) Original maquette poster for the "Meeting of the Little Foxes," an awards ceremony for "Models of Color." Manuscript in red and black, 22 x 14 inches, with inset 6½ x 3-inch photograph affixed on verso, signed by creator Bil Howard; minor dampstaining and wear, 3 short tape repairs, laminated (as created?), laid down on modern mat board. [Detroit, MI], 4 July [1959]
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This event was part of the second annual meeting of the Shutterbug Group, a Detroit photography club, featuring "the nation's first Academy Awards to Models of Color who have made outstanding contributions to the field of modeling on the national level." The poster features an original photograph by Detroit photographer James D. Wilson of model Mary Ann Owens of St. Louis. The event, held at the Ford Auditorium Social Room, was discussed in the Detroit Free Press of 2 July 1959.