Sale 2459 - Rare & Important Travel Posters, October 26, 2017

STANLEY WALTER GALLI (1912-2009) 231 c CHICAGO / UNITED AIR LINES. Circa 1955. 40x25 inches, 101 1 / 2 x63 1 / 2 cm. Condition A / A-: minor creases and abrasions at edges. Paper. An ode to the Modernist architecture of Chicago, in which a sliver of Lake Michigan is seen between the two towers of Mies van der Rohe’s 1951 Lake Shore Drive “Glass House” apartment buildings. Airways p. 151, Huhne p. 82. [1,200/1,800] STANLEY WALTER GALLI (1912-2009) 232 c WASHINGTON, D.C. / UNITED AIR LINES. Circa 1965. 40x24 3 / 4 inches, 101 1 / 2 x63 cm. Condition A / A-: minor tears, minor creases and abrasions at edges; fold in lower left corner. Paper. Galli, a lifelong resident of Northern California, was a painter, illustrator and printmaker. Although a member of the New York and California Society of Illustrators, and the designer of numerous wildlife conservation stamps for the United States Postal Service in the 1960s and 70s, he is best remembered for the series of posters he designed for United Airlines in the 1950s and 60s. [700/1,000] 231 232