?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
LESTER BEALL (1903-1969)
SLUMS BREED CRIME / UNITED STATES HOUSING AUTHORITY. 1941.
39 3/4x29 1/2 inches, 101x75 cm. U.S. Government Printing Office, [Washington, D.C.] Condition A / A-: slight time-staining at top edge; minor abrasions at edges; minor creases along unobtrusive horizontal fold; pencil notations at bottom edge. Paper.
In 1937, Beall was the first American designer to have a one man show at the Museum of Modern Art, and in the same year was one of the first designers commissioned by the U.S. Government to help promote the Rural Electrification Administration.
