At Auction October 15
Around the World in Vintage Posters
First Stop, America the Beautiful
In an era in which armchair traveling has become the new normal, it has never been more engaging to stay at home and travel the world virtually through the glorious designs of historical travel posters. Unintentionally, though poignantly, our Rare & Important Travel Posters auction this fall can certainly be described as celebrating “America the Beautiful” as the number of posters relating to American travel is more concentrated than usual, all luring travelers to the mountains and coastlines, cities, vistas, destinations, National Parks, monuments and events of historical significance around the United States.
Among the highlights are a previously unrecorded poster for the Northern Pacific Railway from 1920, featuring Lewis and Clark; Hernando Villa’s poster for the 1933 Chicago World’s Fair, which has not come up for auction in America in nearly ten years; as well as Villa’s 1931 The Chief is Still Chief poster for the Santa Fe Railroad; and John Held, Jr.’s 1925 poster advertising travel to Nantucket for the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, an image that has not been on the block since 2006. The American offerings are augmented by works of highly regarded and talented poster artists such Edward Eggleston, David Klein, Maurice Logan and Leslie Ragan.
From London to Latvia, Bangkok & Beyond
Celebrated images from Europe include a poster promoting early aviation in the south of France, with Charles Leone Brosse’s Meeting d’Aviation / Nice, 1910. An Art Deco design for the London Underground is seen in Jean Dupas’s Where is the Bower Beside the Silver Thames, 1930. A scarce, atmospheric view of the temples of Bangkok is displayed in Michael Rudolf Wening’s Siam. A Gatsby-esque evocation of holiday makers in Jasper, in the Canadian Rockies; a graphic representation of one of the most famous mountains in the Alps in Emil Cardinaux’s Zermatt, 1908; and a truly exceptional Art Deco gem for travel to the Seaside of Riga in Latvia-the Baltic Coast, circa 1930, complete the offering.
What You Need to Know for Auction Day
This auction will be held live and conducted remotely by Swann auctioneers taking bids from multiple platforms. While there will not be bidding in the room, we will be accepting order bids, and interested buyers will be able to participate live online via the Swann Galleries App. The app is available in the App Store and on Google Play, and it can also be accessed on a desktop at live.swanngalleries.com.
Please note: limited phone bidding will be available for this auction. Phone bidding registrations will close the day before the sale at 4pm.
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