American Fine Art Co. (sold)
American Fine Art Co. (fl. 1890s) were a Milwaukee - based commercial lithographic press whose output spanned from advertisements of patent cures to beautiful panoramic city views. They commissioned work from a wide variety of artists, seldom crediting any of them on their printed output (to the confusion of the modern collector and dealer.)
Utopian Vision of Chicago's World's Columbian Exhibition.
'The Dream City,' The World’s Columbian Exhibition.
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This is a beautiful and scarce chromolithograph bird’s-eye view of Chicago, Illinois, published as a promotion and souvenir for the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893. It depicts Chicago's shore of Lake Michigan, foregrounding the buildings of the Columbian Exposition. The city sprawls in the background, with smoke pouring from dozens of chimneys: in the 19th century, a sign of progress and prosperity. The lake is filled with sailboats and steamships, some picking up and discharging passengers at the Exhibition's pier. (more details)