Aug 06, 2014 - Sale 2356

Sale 2356 - Lot 52

Price Realized: $ 3,584
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
WILLIAM DODGE STEVENS (1870-1942) TEAMWORK BUILDS SHIPS. Circa 1918.
36x50 inches, 91 1/2x127 cm. Forbes, Boston.
Condition A: minor restoration at edges; soft crease through lower right corner.
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.