Vintage Posters: Five Rare Books for Collectors
Sydney Laurence, Rainier National Park/The New Yakima Gateway, 1932
Highlights from Potter & Potter's Vintage Posters auction on November 13 featuring travel and airline posters, American and European advertising posters from the 19th century onwards, plus theater, magic, sports, music, and politics and activism categories include:
* Rainier National Park / The New Yakima Gateway, 1932, by Sydney Laurence, color offset lithograph poster advertising travel to the national park via Northern Pacific Railway
* Chicago / Eastern Airlines, 1960s, by Jane Oliver, color offset lithograph airline poster with a watercolor illustration of downtown Chicago, signed by the artist at lower left
* Fly to Britain by Clipper / Pan American World Airways, 1948, by Mark Von Arenburg, offset lithograph poster depicting the Queen's guard and royal carriage drawn by a team of horses, escorted by soldiers in red, men on horseback with Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament in the background
* If You Want to Fight! / Join the Marines, 1915, by Howard Chandler Christy, lithograph recruiting poster with a half-length portrait of a woman in military uniform standing facing the viewer, and Marines in the trenches to the side
* Brillo Soap Pads, 1970, by Andy Warhol, screenprint poster, published for the Warhol exhibition at the Pasadena Art Museum, May 12-June 21, 1970
