May 09, 2024 - Sale 2668

Sale 2668 - Lot 157

Price Realized: $ 1,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800

ANITA PARKHURST WILLCOX (1892-1984)

SWIM! / YWCA. Circa 1920s.


26¾x20¼ inches, 68x51¼ cm. Rode & Brand Lithographers, New York.
Condition A-: small replaced losses at top margin; small repaired tears at edges.

"Between 1913 and 1929, [Parkhurst's] commercial graphics included covers for Saturday Evening Post, Colliers, Every Week, Fashion Art, McCalls, and Screenland, posters for the YMCA, and numerous advertising illustrations. She signed her commercial work throughout this period with her maiden name, 'Anita Parkhurst'" (Wikipedia).