?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,000
WILLARD FREDERIC ELMES (1900-1956) FT. SHERIDAN / BY THE NORTH SHORE LINE. 1923. 42x28 inches, 106 3/4x71 cm. Illinois Litho. Co., Chicago. Condition B+: repaired tears, minor restored losses, creases and overpainting in margins and along vertical and horizontal folds. 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. Fort Sheridan was built as a US Army post and was used for training and mobilization until its closure in 1993. Pictured is the water tower and the adjoining barracks.
