April 15, 2024Nicholas D. LowryVintage Posters Auction Highlights: Tennis & Sports Posters: Collection of the Schwartz Family & Tennis Corporation of America Read more about Auction Highlights: Tennis & Sports Posters: Collection of the Schwartz Family & Tennis Corporation of America Swann’s May poster auction offers the world’s most preeminent private tennis and sport collection.
Read more about Artist Profile: Edward McKnight Kauffer February 26, 2024 Vintage Posters Artist Profile: Edward McKnight Kauffer To look at the graphic design work of Edward McKnight Kauffer is to experience a master craftsman helping to propel modernism into the mainstream. He achieved the height of his creativity in the decades after World War I, bringing his creative, modern aesthetic to a fast-paced world that was eager to embrace his exciting new visual creations.
Read more about Nicholas D. Lowry’s Specialist Picks: Favorite Lots from The Subculture Sale January 31, 2024 Vintage Posters Nicholas D. Lowry’s Specialist Picks: Favorite Lots from The Subculture Sale Nicholas D. Lowry shares his picks for The Subculture Sale. Bidding open now through February 8.
Read more about Happening February 6 — Off the Wall: New Directions in Poster Collecting January 26, 2024 Vintage Posters Happening February 6 — Off the Wall: New Directions in Poster Collecting Join Us Tuesday, February 6, 2024 at 6:00 PM ETPanel to Begin at 6:30 PM ET At Swann Galleries: 104 East 25th Street, 6th Floor, NYC Join Swann President, and…
Read more about Auction Highlights: Vintage Posters & Graphic Design — February 29, 2024 January 23, 2024 Vintage Posters Auction Highlights: Vintage Posters & Graphic Design — February 29, 2024 This auction will be a combination of many of Swann’s most desirable poster-collecting categories, presenting an exceptional, curated selection of images relating to skiing, Art Deco, Art Nouveau, travel and advertising.
Read more about Auction Highlights: The Subculture Sale — February 8, 2024 January 8, 2024 Vintage Posters Auction Highlights: The Subculture Sale — February 8, 2024 Highlights from the February 8 Subculture Sale
Read more about Artist Profile: Norman Wilkinson November 6, 2023 Vintage Posters Artist Profile: Norman Wilkinson In Norman Wilkinson’s own words, his “whole interest was ships and the sea.” He was an illustrator and maritime painter of great renown (one of his paintings was commissioned to hang…
Read more about Auction Highlights: Rare & Important Travel Posters — November 9, 2023 October 17, 2023 Vintage Posters Auction Highlights: Rare & Important Travel Posters — November 9, 2023 Swann’s autumn 2023 auction of Rare & Important Travel Posters on November 9 is another wonderful, geographic tour de force, with some of the most compelling and infrequently seen images.…
Read more about View from The Podium: What’s Old is New Again August 15, 2023 Swann View from The Podium: What’s Old is New Again It seems like a cliché in our rarified world of auctions to use the expression “What’s Old is New Again,” and yet, here we are in the heat of an…
Read more about Vintage Posters: August 3, 2023 Auction Highlights June 27, 2023 Vintage Posters Vintage Posters: August 3, 2023 Auction Highlights The summer poster auction features one of the largest and most impressive collections of Italian Liberty-style posters to come to market in decades. The more than fifty posters, Property of…
Read more about Graphic Design: May 18, 2023 Auction Highlights April 21, 2023 Graphic Design Graphic Design: May 18, 2023 Auction Highlights Swann’s annual Graphic Design auction gets better and better with each passing year. As more people find interest and delight in the material, still others bring us wonderful material to…
Read more about Artist Profile: Edward Penfield March 7, 2023 Vintage Posters Artist Profile: Edward Penfield Edward Penfield, the Father of the American Poster “A poster should tell its story at once—a design that needs study is not a poster, no matter how well it is…
Read more about Vintage Posters: March 9, 2023 Auction Highlights February 16, 2023 Vintage Posters Vintage Posters: March 9, 2023 Auction Highlights In our upcoming March 9 Vintage Posters auction there is an exceptional selection of over 140 European and American Art Nouveau posters, featuring many of the most sought-after artists of that…
Read more about Collector’s Guide: Aviation & Airline Posters November 2, 2022 Vintage Posters Collector’s Guide: Aviation & Airline Posters Nicholas D. Lowry breaks down the best selection of aviation and airline designs to collect for the plane spotter in all of us… People collect aviation posters for a number…
Read more about Rare & Important Travel Posters — Featuring Highlights from the Victor Ryerson Collection: November 10, 2022 Auction Highlights October 19, 2022 Vintage Posters Rare & Important Travel Posters — Featuring Highlights from the Victor Ryerson Collection: November 10, 2022 Auction Highlights An unparalleled collection of American railway posters assembled by Victor Ryerson includes rare examples from the late nineteenth century, exceptional streamliner imagery from the 1920s and ‘30s, and 18 posters…
Read more about Artist Profile: Roger Broders July 27, 2022 Vintage Posters Artist Profile: Roger Broders The legacy of Roger Broders’ poster design has made his name synonymous with French Art Deco travel posters. His artistic career, as a whole, spans from the early twentieth century,…
Read more about LGBTQ+ Art, Material Culture & History: August 18, 2022 Auction Highlights June 23, 2022 LGBTQ+ Art, Material Culture & History LGBTQ+ Art, Material Culture & History: August 18, 2022 Auction Highlights This August, Swann is proud to host its fourth annual, LGBTQ+ Art, Material Culture & History sale. The success of our first three auctions stands as part of the art…
Read more about Collector’s Guide: Vintage Car Posters May 16, 2022 Graphic Design Collector’s Guide: Vintage Car Posters There has been exciting and novel automobile advertising for as long as there have been cars. From the earliest days of automotive history in the late nineteenth century through the…
Read more about Graphic Design: May 19, 2022 Auction Highlights April 14, 2022 Graphic Design Graphic Design: May 19, 2022 Auction Highlights This admired sale is coming together in a powerful way. This auction is led by one of A.M. Cassandre’s most memorable and scarce images, LMS / Best Way, 1928 — it…
Read more about View from the Podium: 80 Years & Counting April 4, 2022 Swann View from the Podium: 80 Years & Counting Swann Galleries celebrates its 80th anniversary with a note from president Nicholas D. Lowry.
Read more about Collecting Vintage Winter Sports Posters February 22, 2022 Vintage Posters Collecting Vintage Winter Sports Posters The modern Olympic Games were first held in 1896, with an appropriate historical nod to antiquity, in Athens, Greece. It wasn’t until 28 years later, in 1924, that the first…
Read more about Vintage Posters: February 24, 2022 Auction Highlights January 19, 2022 Vintage Posters Vintage Posters: February 24, 2022 Auction Highlights Boasting curious and graphic gems from across centuries and around the world, this auction includes a broad range of images. From the earliest and most wonderful examples of Art Nouveau,…
Read more about Rare & Important Travel Posters: Nicholas D. Lowry’s Picks for the November 23, 2021 Sale November 15, 2021 Vintage Posters Rare & Important Travel Posters: Nicholas D. Lowry’s Picks for the November 23, 2021 Sale Nicholas D. Lowry takes us around the world in under five minutes, as he shares a standout selection of exceptional vintage posters from our November 23, 2021 sale of Rare…
Read more about Nicholas D. Lowry Shares His Favorite “Unofficial” Vintage Olympic Posters July 21, 2021 Vintage Posters Nicholas D. Lowry Shares His Favorite “Unofficial” Vintage Olympic Posters In the world of Olympic posters there are a handful of important milestones: The first modern Olympic Games took place in Athens in 1896, a fitting tribute to the ancient…
Read more about A Brief History of Guinness Posters & Alice in Guinnessland February 12, 2021 Vintage Posters A Brief History of Guinness Posters & Alice in Guinnessland James Joyce allegedly proclaimed that Guinness was “the wine of Ireland,” and a 1973 ad for the company featured a reluctant drinker and the tag line “I’ve never tried it…
Read more about Collector’s Guide: Railway Posters October 12, 2020 Vintage Posters Collector’s Guide: Railway Posters Nicholas D. Lowry Picks His Top Locomotive Travel Posters Among the earliest European travel posters were produced by the railway companies to sell tickets on their new trains crisscrossing the…
Read more about The Excitement of Discovering “Previously Unrecorded” Travel Posters October 1, 2020 Vintage Posters The Excitement of Discovering “Previously Unrecorded” Travel Posters …and what we mean when we say something is “Rare.” Just when you think you have seen it all… I am always amazed when I realize how much more there…
Read more about A Puerto Rican Archive of Graphic Design February 6, 2020 Vintage Posters A Puerto Rican Archive of Graphic Design Our winter-spring 2020 sale of Vintage Posters on February 13 is set to feature an extensive archive of over 350 posters by Puerto Rico’s most renowned painters, designers and graphic artists. Here Nicholas D. Lowry, the house’s vintage posters director, touches on the featured artists and the movement that brought these works to light.
Read more about 20 Years of Rare & Important Travel Posters at Swann November 7, 2019 Vintage Posters 20 Years of Rare & Important Travel Posters at Swann Swann Galleries’ November 14 sale of Rare & Important Travel Posters marks the house’s twentieth annual sale in the category. Here we share Nicholas D. Lowry’s entry to the catalogue, in which he reflects on the history and impact of the sale.