Aug 03, 2023 - Sale 2643

Sale 2643 - Lot 282

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

RUTH TAYLOR WHITE (1899-?)

WINE MAP OF CALIFORNIA. Circa 1945.


42x32 1/4 inches, 106 1/2x82 cm. Schwabacher-Frey Co., San Francisco.
Condition A-: repaired tears and minor restoration in margins; creases in margins and image.

A wonderful pictorial map of the California wine country from San Diego in the South to Eureka in the North. Known for her whimsical maps in the 1930s, much in the style of Jo Mora and John Held, Jr., which were published in Our USA - A Gay Geography, Ruth Taylor created these "cartographs" for every state in the union. Here, for the Wine Advisory Board in San Francisco she provides historical, touristic and wine-related vignettes from all over the state. Picturing America pl. 122.