?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
WILLIAM DODGE STEVENS (1870-1942)
TEAMWORK BUILDS SHIPS. Circa 1918.
36x49½ inches, 91½x125¾ cm. Forbes, Boston. Condition B+: minor repaired tears, replaced losses, creases and abrasions in margins; repaired tear at left edge into image with minor overpainting; minor creases in image.
Emphasizing "concentrated human energy" (Paret p. 80), this poster embodies American industrial power in its rawest form. Issued by the U.S. Shipping Board, the image is a precursor to the industrial photographs of the following decade, in which work by Lewis Hine and Margaret Bourke-White captured the same intensity and power within the factories of America.
Rawls p. 76, Paret 114, Theofiles 256, Borkan p. 53.
