Oct 14, 2014 - Sale 2360

Sale 2360 - Lot 153

Price Realized: $ 3,380
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
VARIOUS ARTISTS NEW YORK WORLD'S FAIR. Group of 3 posters. 1939.
30x20 inches, 76 1/4x50 3/4 cm. Grinnell Litho. Co. Inc., N.Y.C.
Condition varies, generally B+ / A-. Paper.
Although many different posters were created to advertise the New York World's Fair (including those of railroad companies, shipping companies and various pavilions and exhibitors), there were only three official posters published by the New York World's Fair Corporation, the committee responsible for organizing and staging the fair. These posters were printed in three different sizes, of which these are the largest. Includes the 1939 World's Fair posters by Joseph Binder, John Atherton and Albert Staehle. World's Fair cover and p. 218 and 219, Weill 427, Resnick 31, The Poster 304, Affiche Art Deco p. 116, Crouse p. 108.