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FREDERICK VALENTINE CARPENTER (1891-?). WIMBLEDON CHAMPIONSHIPS JUNE 22 TO JULY 4. 1936. 10x12½ inches, 25½x31¾ cm. [Dangerfield Printi
Estimate:
$1,500 - $2,000
Sold
$4,400
Live Auction
Tennis & Sports Posters: Collection of the Tennis Corporation of America
Description
FREDERICK VALENTINE CARPENTER (1891-?)

WIMBLEDON CHAMPIONSHIPS JUNE 22 TO JULY 4. 1936.

10x12½ inches, 25½x31¾ cm. [Dangerfield Printing Company Ltd., London].
Condition A- / A: minor creases along faint vertical fold; mounted on Chartex.

"In the 1930s, Carpenter became best known as a graphic designer, particularly among readers of Fortune magazine, for which he designed several covers" (https://www.metmuseum.org/). He also published A Sketch Book of New York, in 1927. This same image by Carpenter was used to advertise the "Whitman Cup - Wimbledon" in the same year, from June 12 &13th. LTM 1983.4.9865 (var).