Feb 18, 2021 - Sale 2558

Sale 2558 - Lot 296

Price Realized: $ 1,875
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000

WILLARD FREDERIC ELMES (1900-1956)

READY TO SPRING! 1929.


40x33 inches, 101 1/2x83 3/4 cm. Mather & Company, Chicago.
Condition B+: repaired tears at edges, one through lower image; creases in image; margins and printer info trimmed off.

Elmes, who is best known for his Mather Work Incentive posters, also designed about a half-dozen images for the Chicago Rapid Transit and the North Shore Line in the 1920s.