Beach & summer resort posters and WWI & WWII propaganda at auction at Swann Galleries

Art Daily Newsletter Swann Galleries will conduct a two-session auction of vintage posters. NEW YORK, NY.- On Wednesday, August 1, Swann Galleries will conduct a two-session auction of Vintage Posters that offers dazzling warm-weather vacation posters, eye-grabbing examples of World War I and II propaganda, charming Mather Work Incentive posters and rare American literary posters. The sale opens with nearly 180 posters from the World Wars, most created to rally Americans around the war effort. Highlights of these include Fred Spear’s haunting Enlist, appropriating an image of a mother and baby lost in the sinking of the Lusitania, New York, 1915 (estimate: $15,000 to $20,000); James Montgomery Flagg’s iconic I Want You for U.S. Army, perhaps the best known American poster of all time, New York, 1917 ($5,000 to $7,500); K.M. Bara’s image of General Pershing on a white horse, You Are Wanted by U.S. Army, San Francisco, circa 1918 ($6,000 to $8,000); and Karl Koehner’s This is the Enemy, a clo ... More