Aug 04, 2022 - Sale 2612

Sale 2612 - Lot 17

Price Realized: $ 2,600
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800

CHARLES LIVINGSTON BULL (1874-1932)

JOIN THE ARMY AIR SERVICE / BE AN AMERICAN EAGLE! Circa 1917.


31 3/4x20 3/4 inches, 80 3/4x52 3/4 cm. Alpha Litho Co. Inc., New York.
Condition B+: tears and repaired tears at edges, some affecting text; minor creases and printer's creases in image and along vertical and horizontal folds; pencil notation in right image; text banner affixed at bottom. Paper.

An action-filled allegorical image in which the flying predatory icons of two major world powers, the American Eagle and a German Black Eagle, square off in the sky amidst a squadron of biplanes. Rawls p. 173, Theofiles p. 35, Borkan p. 41, War Posters 116, Pollack 12.