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Lot 62

Sale 882 - Icons of Style: Summer Fashion & Accessories
Jun 3, 2021 10:00AM CT
Online / Chicago
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Estimate
$4,000 - 6,000
Price Realized
$3,125
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Lot Description

Five Collections of Fashion Illustrations, 1938-1945


This lot includes over 575 illustrations. 

Various 1930's-1940's fashion illustrations, line sheets, designer notes, and sketches maintained in five black hard case loose-leaf folders.

THE FIRST
Various designer sketches with notes and fabric swatches, and line sheets.
Pencil and colored pencil on tracing paper and vellum.
Approximate Measurements:
6.75" x 8.5" - 9" x 12"

THE SECOND
Various designer illustrations and sketches including, Ruth Aaron, Racy Earle, Edyth Sparag Studios INC, Dezine Studio, Minnie Abrams Studios, Caroline G. Davis, and unknown designers.
Watercolor and colored pencil on paper and vellum.
Approximate Measurements:
5.5" x 8.5" - 8.5" x 13"

THE THIRD
Midtown Fashion Service, INC Line sketches, printed and some colored, designer sketches with notes, and line sheet packets.
Pencil on tracing paper, printed with water color.
Approximate Measurements:
8.5" x 11"

THE FOURTH
Fabric swatches, designer sketches with notes, and line sheets.
Pencil on tracing paper, printed, and vellum.
Approximate Measurements:
8.5" x 11" - 9" x 12"

THE FIFTH
Line sheets and designer sketches with notes.
Pencil on tracing paper and printed.
Approximate Measurements:
8.5" x 11" - 9" x 12"

Property from the Collection of Dr. James Dawson, Manchester, Kentucky

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