Sep 24, 2015 - Sale 2392

Sale 2392 - Lot 263

Price Realized: $ 1,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
ELLISON HOOVER
Pulitzer Fountain, Evening.

Lithograph, circa 1930. 318x246 mm; 12 1/2x13 1/2 inches, full margins. Edition of approximately only 40. Signed in pencil, lower right. A very good impression of this scarce lithograph. The Pulitzer Fountain, topped with a figure of Pomona, the Roman goddess of abundance, was erected on the Grand Army Plaza, at 59th and Fifth Avenue, New York, with $50,000 bequethed by newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer on his death in 1911.