First Call American Posters of World War I and II
The
enormous output of posters in the United States during and just after the
1st World War belies the country’s late entry into the conflict. Spurred
by the example of various European combatants, the creation and production
of appropriate “pictorial publicity” quickly achieved a high level of
artistic involvement and industrial applications. Thousands of designs
were created and most of them were printed in large numbers. As a result,
a very few of these posters are scarce even today, and only a small
handful qualify as “rare.” A large number of artists were involved in the
creation of the posters during the war, such as Howard Chandler Christy
and James Montgomery Flag.
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