1950s B. Altman Original Fashion Sketch for the Tribune Ad, Signed

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For your consideration, we are offering a signed 1950s B. Altman hand drawn pen & ink and watercolor fashion sketch … more For your consideration, we are offering a signed 1950s B. Altman hand drawn pen & ink and watercolor fashion sketch of five ladies in gowns for an ad in The Tribune.

There are ad whiteout marks and directions written in pencil for the newspaper art director.

It is signed on the lower right facing corner with the initials L.E.S.

B. Altman, the upscale department store, one of the first of its kind in the country, took up an entire square block of Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue.

B. Altman and Company was a luxury department store and chain, founded in 1865 in New York City, New York, by Benjamin Altman.Its flagship store, the B. Altman and Company Building at Fifth Avenue and 34th Street in Midtown Manhattan, operated from 1906 until the company closed the store at the end of 1989.

Most of these mid 20th century fashion sketches we have listed were for big-city newspapers such as the Herald-Tribune, the New York World-Telegram & Sun, and The New York Times.

They are all on a heavy cardboard like paper. less