Name: F. W. READ (LATE 19TH CENTURY)
Brand: IN FUTURO
Price: 5500.00 USD
Availability: SoldOut

F. W. READ (LATE 19TH CENTURY)
IN FUTURO
signed F. W. READ. (lower right)
gouache on paper
24¹⁄₈ x 18 in. (61.2 x 45.7 cm.) (sight)
Executed circa 1901.

Norman Brosterman (b. 1952), New York.
Acquired by the late owner from the above, 2001.

Life Magazine, December 5, 1901, illustrated.
Norman Brosterman, Out of Time: Designs for the Twentieth-Century Future (New York, 2000), pp. 36-37, illustrated.

Tacoma, Washington, Washington State Historical Society, Out of Time: Designs for the 20th Century Future, 11 November 2000-7 January 2001; also, Lansing, Michigan, Michigan Historical Museum, 27 January-25 March 2001; New York, New York Historical Society, 14 April-10 June 2001; Laramie, Wyoming, University of Wyoming Art Museum, 30 June-26 August 2001; Fargo, North Dakota, Plains Art Museum, 1 December 2001-27 January 2002; Springfield, Massachusetts, 5 October-1 December 2002.

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Lot Essay

F.W. Read's illustration was published in the December 5, 1901 edition of Life Magazine with the original caption, "'Your are nearly an hour late, dear.' 'Yes. The air ship broke down, and I had to fly home.'"