Dec 16, 2009 - Sale 2200

Sale 2200 - Lot 151

Price Realized: $ 1,680
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
CHARLES HUBBARD WRIGHT (1870-1939) THE MAY CENTURY. 1897.
20 3/4x12 inches, 53x30 1/2 cm.
Condition B+/ B: restored losses, repaired tears and restoraiton in margins and image; restored pin-holes in corners; horizontal fold.
Wright was a New York City-based painter and illustrator who designed over thirty posters for the New York Herald newspaper. Although advertising a monthly magazine, it can properly be viewed as an extremely early American aviation poster. DFP-I 502.