Dec 17, 2014 - Sale 2371

Sale 2371 - Lot 196

Price Realized: $ 358
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
CHARLES HERBERT WOODBURY (1864-1940) THE JULY CENTURY. 1895.
19x11 3/4 inches, 48 1/4x29 3/4 cm.
Condition B+: losses, tears and creases in lower left corner; light creasing in margins and image and along unobtrusive vertical and horizontal folds; paper remnants in upper image. Paper.
A student at M.I.T., Woodbury was a Boston-based artist who specialized in landscapes, seascapes, watercolors and prints. "The rich effects of his poster designs were conveyed by the disposition of sharp lines and flat areas of limited color" (Kiehl p. 193). Kiehl 288, DFP-I 501, Reims 1334, Maitres 32, American Posters no. 103, Virginia p. 100, Margolin p. 74, Keay p. 110, Overland Monthly, March 1896, p. 298.