Aug 08, 2024 - Sale 2676

Sale 2676 - Lot 255

Price Realized: $ 469
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000

STANLEY WALTER GALLI (1912-2009)

UNITED AIR LINES / HAWAII. Circa 1955.


40x25 inches, 101½x63½ cm.
Condition B+: minor tears, creases, losses, abrasions and darkening at edges; minor creases and abrasions in image; travel agency sticker affixed in lower left corner. Paper.

Galli was a California painter, illustrator and printmaker. Although a member of the New York and California Society of Illustrators, and the designer of 26 stamps for the United States Postal Service, he is best remembered for the series of posters he designed for United Airlines in the 1950s and 60s.

Huhne p. 83, Airways p. 131.