May 19, 2022 - Sale 2605

Sale 2605 - Lot 134

Price Realized: $ 1,406
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,000

LESTER BEALL (1903-1969)

S.S. AMERICA / UNITED STATES LINES. Circa 1952.


29 1/2x21 1/2 inches, 75x54 1/2 cm.
Condition A: minor abrasions at edges.

In 1937, Beall was the first American designer to have a one-man show at the Museum of Modern Art. He designed at least six posters for the United States Lines, each with a crisp, efficient, modern graphic treatment, and realized with a contemporary dynamic vision.