All Posts By Nicholas D. Lowry

May 8, 2024 Vintage Posters

There are several notable reasons why people collect tennis posters.  First and foremost, collectors of these pieces are driven by their love of the game. Within that passion,…

May 7, 2024 Events

Swann President and Vintage Posters specialist Nicholas D. Lowry is joined by Nicole Markham, curator at the Museum at the International Tennis Hall of Fame; Simeon Lipman,…

April 22, 2024 Vintage Posters

Collecting Olympic posters was straightforward up until the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. Prior to those games, the International Olympic Committee would choose one official poster (on…

April 15, 2024 Vintage Posters

Swann's May poster auction offers the world's most preeminent private tennis and sport collection.

February 26, 2024 Graphic Design

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…

January 31, 2024 Autographs

Nicholas D. Lowry shares his picks for The Subculture Sale. Bidding open now through February 8.

January 26, 2024 Swann

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 Vintage Poster…

January 23, 2024 Vintage Posters

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…

January 8, 2024 American Art

Highlights from the February 8 Subculture Sale

November 6, 2023 Vintage Posters

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…

October 17, 2023 Vintage Posters

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…

August 15, 2023 Swann

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 oppressive summer and at Swann, we…