Nov 18, 2009 - Sale 2196

Sale 2196 - Lot 151

Price Realized: $ 3,840
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
WILLARD FREDERIC ELMES (1900-1956) SKI JUMPING / NORTH SHORE LINE. 1928.
41 1/2x27 3/4 inches, 105x70 1/2 cm. Illinois Litho. Co., Chicago.
Condition B+: repaired tears and creases in margins and image; restoration and overpainting in margins; horizontal fold.
Although almost entirely remembered for his design work on Mather Work Incentive posters, Elmes also designed posters for Chicago's Rapid Transit Company and North Shore Line railway. Previously unrecorded. Rare.