Aug 05, 2021 - Sale 2577

Sale 2577 - Lot 25

Price Realized: $ 488
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750

ERNEST HAMLIN BAKER (1889-1975)

YOUR NATION'S NEEDS AND YOUR PART IN IT. Small format poster. Circa 1917.


41 1/2x27 inches, 105 1/2x68 1/2 cm. Schmidt Litho., San Francisco.
Condition B: replaced loss and repaired tears at top margin, slightly into image; repaired tears and small replaced losses at edges; minor creases and abrasions in image.

In addition to the World War I and II propaganda posters he designed, Baker was best known for the 391 "journalistic portraits" he created for Time Magazine from 1939 to 1956, as well as 13 Fortune Magazine covers.