Vintage Posters

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Julien Lacaze (French, 1886-1971). "Chemins de Fer d'Alsace et de Lorraine. La Lorraine Pittoresque." [Alsace and Lorraine Railways: Picturesque Lorraine.] France, ca. 1925. 37 x 26. Signed in image. Several minor tears in margins expertly repaired. Poster has been backed with rice paper. 2 1/2 x 1/2 loss in margin which has been filled and in-painted. Pin holes in corner. $1,200

Elio Ximenes. (1855-1926). "Lago di Garda Tremosine." ca. 1905. 37 1/2 x 25 3/4". Chromolithograph. Several repaired tears into image and filled chips in margins. Else, very good condition. $1,400

W. Walter Calvert. "Visit Washington. Go By Train. Pennsylvania Railroad." [White House]. Pennsylvania Railroad poster, circa 1955. Approximately 40 x 25. Multiple creases and some repaired tears in the gold colored background at top of print.

Calvert, who lived in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, was a commercial artist who was a member of the Art Directors Club of Philadelphia, Sketch Club, and was commissioned by the Bell Telephone, Pennsylvania Railroad, Philadelphia Electric Company and other companies to provide art work for their advertising campaigns. $550

CIRCUS POSTERS

• Maxwell Frederic Coplan. "Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Circus. See You at The Greatest Show on Earth" ca. 1955. 40 x 26 (image) plus margins. Top left corner of margin missing not affecting image. [Vertical bust photo of Lou Jacobs (1903-1992) as a clown]. $575

  
  

• Maxwell Frederic Coplan. "Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Circus. See You at The Greatest Show on Earth" ca. 1955. 26 x 40 (image) plus margins. [Horizontal bust photo of Lou Jacobs (1903-1992) as a clown]. $750

  
  

• Lawon Wood. "Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey." ca. 1943. 26 1/4 x 39 3/4. Repaired tears and holes in margin corners. [Amusing image of chimpanzees waiting in line to pay an elephant for admission into the circus]. $325

  
  

• Anon. "Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Circus. The Greatest Show on Earth" ca. 1950. 42 1/2 x 26 1/2 (image) plus margins. Top left corner of red border surround image missing; else very good condition. [Fierce tiger at top and lion at bottom]. $300

  
  

• "Elephant Act, 1935." Poster (using the image by Robert Riggs) titled "Images from The World Between. The Circus in 20th Century American Art. At the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art * The State Art Museum of Florida Feb. 2 - May 12, [20] '02. Organized by the American Federation of Arts." Printed by Hatch Show Prints: Nashville, TN, 2002. Attributed to "m. fred" (Mike Frederick). Excellent condition. References: Bassham, 55 and Beall, 22.

  Here is a poster using a print by Robert Riggs (1896-1950) which originally appeared circa 1935. Hatch Show Prints of Nashville, Tennessee, was producer of huge numbers of letterpress posters intended to be pasted and hung on walls near performances throughout the United States and elsewhere. Here, and for this exhibit, Hatch went beyond the usual mere copying to document the source and physical characteristics of the original print as from the Philadelphia Museum of Art, being a lithograph measuring 14 1/4 x 9 1/2 inches, and purchased through the Thomas Skelton Harrison Fund in 1941.

  Altogether a fine presentation of respect and an accurate documentation found in an exciting poster. $350

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