Aug 05, 2009 - Sale 2185

Sale 2185 - Lot 90

Price Realized: $ 1,440
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
TOM B. WOODBURN (1893-1980) WINGS OVER AMERICA / AIR CORPS U.S. ARMY. 1939.
34 1/2x25 inches, 88x64 cm.
Condition B-: repaired tears, creases, staining and abrasions in margins and image; restored losses along right edge; trimmed bottom margin.
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. He was in charge of the Recruiting Publicity Bureau. Judd C.35, Nelson p. 141 (var).