Aug 03, 2016 - Sale 2421

Sale 2421 - Lot 77

Price Realized: $ 531
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
CHARLES HERBERT WOODBURY (1864-1940) THE JULY CENTURY. 1895.
19x11 1/2 inches, 48 1/4x29 1/4 cm.
Condition A- / B+: minor losses in upper margin; creases in corners; unobtrusive horizontal fold. 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.