Category: Advertising

100 Best Posters 1949

Price: $175.00

Publisher: Chicago, Outdoor Advertising Asociation of America, Inc. : 1949

Seller ID: 003900

Condition: Near Fine

Folio, 23.5 by 25 cm. 50 pp. Full of period advertising poster art, three examples per page generally, with a few pages in the rear presenting ten ads per page. The winning ad, awarded to a Ford ad, is shown in color, as are the second and third place awards; the remainder are rendered in black and white. In this edition of this annual, the posters are presented by industry category: automobile, food products, beers, wines and liquors, gasoline and oil, etc., with first, second and third awards in each category -- a mark of the growing maturity, or bloat, of the advertising industry. Nin...
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Eighth Annual of Advertising Art from Advertisements Shown at the Exhibition of the Art Directors Club, Art Center, New York, May 4 to 29, 1929

Price: $165.00

Publisher: New York, Art Directors Club of New York : 1929

Seller ID: 004611

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good Plus

4to. 29 by 21 cm. [15], 134, [46] pp. With hundreds of pictorial ads reproduced, mostly several to a page, but a significant number full page and 39 pages in full color. With the distance of nine decades, one can see that the close affinity of these fine examples of commercial art and the more high-toned gallery artwork of the day, and that the boundary separating the commerical from the more purely artistic was a blur. In fact, some of the designers, painters or photographers here are revered today for their non-commercial work.. Guy Arnoux, Edward Steichen, Norman Rockwell, Benito, N.C....
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Fairy Tales

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Chicago, N.K. Fairbank Company

Seller ID: 004292

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Very Good

N.d., circa 1900. 8vo. 17.5 by 10.5 cm. Unpaginated, 24 pp. plus wraps. With 12 chromolithographic plates, in addition to other duotone illustrations, often underlaying the text. Adaptations of a few well-known Mother Goose nursery rhymes, but most of the doggeril is original verse, with pleasantly, and none to subtly, promotes the company's product. The fairy motif runs throughout both in the verse and the illustrations.
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[Advertising Art] Watercolor of Colorful Christmas Ornaments

Price: $425.00

Seller ID: 002793

Condition: Fine

A delightful and colorful advertising campaign proof done with watercolors, circa 1940. The painting shows many tree ornaments -- a Santa, a candy cane, a snow man, animals, etc. It is a feast for the eyes. Alternatively, this might have served as a proof for a trade catalogue. The picture is mounted and matted. The picture itself is 14 by 9 inches, and with the mat, 22 by 17 inches.
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[Advertising Art] Watercolor of Toddlers Wearing Bonnets and Berets and Four Juvenile Pocketbooks

Price: $375.00

Seller ID: 002792

Condition: Fine

A delightful and colorful advertising campaign proof done with watercolors, circa 1940. The painting shows toddlers in varied headwear. Alternatively, this might have served as a proof for a trade catalogue. The picture is mounted and matted. The picture itself is 13.5 by 8.25 inches, and with the mat, 22 by 17 inches.
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[Advertising] Ask for Butter-Nut Bread

Price: $35.00

Seller ID: 004293

Binding: NA

Condition: Mint

N.d., circa 1940s. Standee promotion for bread, featuring a tot with a toque and chef's apron. There are two folds, one of which is meant to serve as the base so that the figure can stand up, and the other, in conjunction with the other folding part, is intended to hold an actual loaf of bread in place. Neither of the folds have in fact ever been folded, and this delightful two-dimensional figure is entirely unused. In its unusued state, it measures 33.5 by 23.5 cm (at its widest). If displayed as intended, the figure stands 30 cm tall.
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