Feb 20 at 10:30 AM - Sale 2695 -

Sale 2695 - Lot 229

Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000

WILLARD FREDERICK ELMES (1900-1956)

SKI JUMPING / NORTH SHORE LINE. 1928.


41½x27¾ inches, 105x70½ cm. Illinois Litho. Co., Chicago.
Condition B+: small replaced losses and overpainting in margins; repaired tears at edges, some slightly into image; minor restoration along horizontal creases at top.

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. Rare.