Jun 12, 2008 - Sale 2149

Sale 2149 - Lot 159

Unsold
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
AL HIRSCHFELD
American Dream. RETURNED

Pen and ink and wash on illustration board, 1933. 557x495 mm; 22x19 1/2 inches. Signed in ink, center right recto, and captioned upper and lower margins. With printer's marks and measurements, recto.

The captions read: upper margin, "American Dream--a Cycle of the Pingree Family in America--1650-1933," lower margin, "Lee Baker as Roger Pingree the Puritan Father of 1650; Helen Westley as Abbie Pingree the Bourgeoise Mother of 1849; Douglas Montgomery as Daniel Pingree the Social Minded Son of 1933." Published in the New York Times.