Nov 10, 2022 - Sale 2621

Sale 2621 - Lot 160

Price Realized: $ 1,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900

WILLARD FREDERIC ELMS (1900-1956)

NAVAJO LAND / SANTA FE. Circa 1949.


24x18 inches, 61x45 3/4 cm.
Condition A: minor creases at edges. Paper.

Elms trained at the Arts Institute in Chicago, where he also went on to teach. Although he is best known for his Mather Work Incentive posters, he also designed about a half-dozen images for the Chicago Rapid Transit and the North Shore Line in the 1920s. In his later years, he became a children's book illustrator and a painter. (See lot 174 for another work by the artist.)

Additional Details

From the collection of Victor Ryerson.