clyde-beatty-trained-wild-animal-vintage-circus-poster
Lot 332
Clyde Beatty "Trained Wild Animal" Vintage Circus Poster
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Lithographic poster in colors, 1940s-1950s, linen backed, unframed.

Sheet Size 31 1/2 x 41 1/4 in.

Vintage Circus Posters, Estate of B. Thomas M. Smith, Sr., Petersburg, Virginia . Smith established this extensive collection of circus and theater posters over the course of 40 years, between 1936 and the early 1970s. Portions of his collection are now held by the Ringling Circus Museum, Sarasota, Florida and the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture, Washington, DC.

This rare poster boasts a bright and strong graphic.

Condition B/B-: heavy restoration to loss and tears in header; some other scattered minor nicks and smudges. Professionally restored and linen backed.