Feb 29, 2024 - Sale 2660

Sale 2660 - Lot 155

Price Realized: $ 1,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,000

JOSEPH BINDER (1898-1972) & ANONYMOUS

[ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN RAILROADS]. Group of 4 posters. Circa 1940s-1952.


Sizes vary, each approximately 18x14 inches, 46x36 cm.
Condition varies, generally A / A-. Paper. One with wide margins.

One of Binder's images for this series has become an icon of 20th Century Graphic design. Yet, for all of the attention that particular image has received, many of the other images in the series have rarely been published. Group includes: Heavy-Duty Highway That Costs the Taxpayer Nothing; Essential to Industry. . . . Vital to Defense; and The Most Important Wheels in America, by Binder; and America's No. 1 Car (artist unknown).

Images 15 (var), Modern American 42 (var), International Poster Annual 1952 p. 176 (var). Images available upon request.