Aug 06, 2014 - Sale 2356

Sale 2356 - Lot 136

Price Realized: $ 1,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
TOM B. WOODBURN (1893-1980) WINGS OVER AMERICA / AIR CORPS U.S. ARMY. 1941.
37 1/4x25 inches, 94 1/2x63 1/2 cm.
Condition A-: repaired tears, restoration and overpainting at edges and in corners; creases in margins and image; horizontal fold.
One of Woodburn's earliest posters and certainly one of his rarest. Woodburn designed several posters for the United States during the Second World War, during which time he was in charge of the Recruiting Publicity Bureau. Judd C.35, Nelson p. 141 (var).