Title: VINTAGE POSTERS
Date: February 2, 2012
Time: at 10:30 AM & 2:00 PM
Exhibition: Sat., Jan. 28, 10-4
Mon., Jan. 30, 10-6
Tues., Jan. 31, 10-6
Wed., Feb. 1, 10-6

Contact Person: Nicholas D. Lowry
posters@swanngalleries.com

Contains an exemplary selection of skiing and winter sports images, a section of more than 75 rare and important Art Nouveau posters, and much more.

Highlights include:

Ernest Haskell's poster for Truth magazine, 1896, one the earliest ski posters, and likely the first American ski poster (top left).

Buffalo Bill's Wild West / Le "Poney Express", 1900, one of a selection of Wild West posters.

Over 15 posters for the Dartmouth Winter Carnival, including the one featured left by Pete Dohanos, 1952.

Jacques Villon's l'Anti-Bélier, Paris, 1899.

WWI posters like Clarence Coles Phillips' Light Consume Coal, circa 1918.