CHICAGO: THE WORLD'S YOUNGEST GREAT CITY
Cover by William Welsh
[William Welsh]: CHICAGO: THE WORLD'S YOUNGEST GREAT CITY. Chicago: Chicago: John Burnham & Company, 1929. First edition. The original paper-covered boards are in Very Good condition,with light rubbing to bottom edges. The book has a three-inch split as the juncture of the spine base and front hinge. A nice copy of a book not usually found in collectible condition. This book would look great on a Kem Weber coffee table. Original boards decorated with an Art Deco design by William Welsh showing a monolithic head set against a patterned background of stylized buildings. A truly iconic image from the American Art Deco movement.
9 x 12 hardcover book with 196 pages, illustrated throughout: A promotional book touting Chicago's achievements in Art, Literature, Science, Education, Industy and Commerce, Transportation, Finance, and Athletics, with a chapter on plans for the upcoming 1933 Centennial celebration.
William P. Welsh (born in 1889) was a highly decorated artist of the early twentieth century. His paintings include portraits of numerous citizens of Chicago, murals for the Chicago Room and Palmer House, 1925-26, illustrations for stories for Hearst's International, Woman's Home Companion, magazine covers for Woman's Home Companion, mural decoration Lexington St. Scene, Kentuckian Hotel, 1947, portraits of many notables, from 1948; one man exhibition Speed Art Museum, Louisville, 1956; designed posters for Pullman Co., University of Chicago, Lincoln National Life Insurance Co., and others.
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