Aug 05, 2015 - Sale 2389

Sale 2389 - Lot 168

Price Realized: $ 1,125
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
TOM B. WOODBURN (1893-1980) WINGS OVER AMERICA. 1941.
38x25 inches, 96 1/2x63 1/2 cm.
Condition B+ / A-: minor tears at top edge; minor creases in margins and image; pin holes in margins and corners. Paper.
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).