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Lot 510: Join the Air Service.

Est: $1,700 USD - $2,000 USD
Poster Auctions International IncNew York, NY, USNovember 09, 2008

Item Overview

Description

Join the Air Service.
J. PAUL VERREES (1889-1942)
Ketterlinus, Philadelphia
Cond A.
An imaginative recruiting poster for pilots in World War I, with a very good representation of the flimsy biplanes they were expected to fly. Verrees was born in Belgium and came to the U.S. in 1909; this poster was considered one of his finest, and one of the best aviation posters ever designed anywhere.
1917
25 x 37 1/4 in./63.3 x 94.5 cm

Artist or Maker

Auction Details

XLVII - Posh Posters

by
Poster Auctions International Inc
November 09, 2008, 11:00 AM EST

601 West 26th Street Suite 1370, New York, NY, 10001, US