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Vintage Posters

October 7, 2024

For an artist with such a prominent place in the American pantheon of poster designers, very little biographical information exists about the life of Leslie Ragan. He is best…

September 18, 2024

October's travel poster auction is a journey around the world and a trek through the Who's Who of famous travel poster designers.

September 17, 2024

In viewing mid-century modern posters depicting New York City, it is a curious surprise to find a direct graphic line drawn between 1947 and 1956, as four of the most prominent…

September 3, 2024

In honor of the 400th anniversary of the founding of New York City, Swann Galleries is bringing back the New York sale.

July 15, 2024

In the 2024 Winter-Spring season, Swann Galleries continued to provide high-quality auctions of unusual and rare material. Several single-owner collections were featured,…

June 28, 2024

Our August Vintage Poster auction encompasses a broad array of genres, spanning the 19th-21st centuries, and from countries around the globe.

May 8, 2024

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

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

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

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