May 09 at 12:00 PM - Sale 2668 -

Sale 2668 - Lot 54

Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000

LUCILE PATTERSON MARSH (1890-1978)

PLAY THE GAME / YWCA. 1925.


26x20 inches, 66x50¾ cm. Rode & Brand Lithographers, New York.
Condition A- / A: slight time-staining in margins; minor abrasions in image; reds slightly attenuated.

Marsh was a prominent illustrator, who contributed covers and images for publications such as Woman's Home Companion; The Saturday Evening Post and Cosmopolitan and created ads for companies like Jell-O and Ivory soap. Marsh also designed at least one other poster for the YWCA, entitled The Play's The Thing.