Nov 11, 2002 - Sale 1951

Sale 1951 - Lot 14

Price Realized: $ 1,955
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
SEE BOULDER DAM ENROUTE TO CALIFORNIA. Circa 1936.
41x26 1/2 inches. Amalgamated Lithographers, Chicago.
Condition B+: tear through top margin into text; tears, wrinkles and slight paper loss at edges; creases in corners.
A photomontage of America's most famous dam taken "at dedication ceremonies Sept 30, 1935". Completed in 1936, the dam, spanning Boulder Canyon, was called the Boulder Dam until 1947 when Congress passed a resolution renaming the dam after President Herbert Hoover. Both compositionally and typographically this poster is more in keeping with avant-garde posters of Europe during the 1930s than with the prevailing illustrative trends in America.