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Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,500
ALFRED F. BURKE (DATES UNKNOWN) SHARE. Circa 1917. 40 1/4x30 inches, 102 1/4x76 1/4 cm. Sackett & Wilhelms Corporation, Brooklyn. Condition B+: minor restoration in margins, abrasions in margins and image. An allegorical figure of America offering her bounty, a tray laden with bread and fruits, to four desperate Jewish refugees dressed in tatters. In the background, the New York skyline, a symbol of the prosperous and secure New World, beneath an optimistic orange and yellow sky (itself reminiscent of a wheat field and thereby a further indication of how much America has to share). One of the finest, and rarest of the World War I Judaic posters, "the relationship between the few words of strong text and the vivid, compelling imagery . . . [and] the economy of both text and image creates a succinct and lasting message" (Magnes p. 34). Magnes cover and p. 35.
