May 09, 2024 - Sale 2668

Sale 2668 - Lot 193

Price Realized: $ 2,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000

WILLARD FREDERIC ELMES (1900-1956)

A JUST DECISION / FAIRNESS KEEPS FRIENDS. 1926.


48x36¼ inches, 122x92 cm. Mather & Company, Chicago.
Condition B+: overpainted and partially-replaced right margin; minor repaired tears in margins; minor creases and abrasions in image; punch holes at top and bottom, as issued.

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.