Aug 05, 2015 - Sale 2389

Sale 2389 - Lot 101

Price Realized: $ 650
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
HOWARD CHANDLER CHRISTY (1873-1952) THE MOTOR - CORPS OF AMERICA. 1918.
41x28 1/2 inches, 122x72 1/2 cm.
Condition B: repaired tear and overpainting at bottom edge, into central image; restored losses and repaired tears at edges, into text; creases in margins and image. Colors attenuated. Paper. Framed.
The Motor Corps was a volunteer organization that worked with the Red Cross to provide rescue and emergency medical treatment. One of the artist's rarest war girls. Rawls p. 61, Borkan p. 49.