BEN SHAHN (1898-1969) WARNING! INFLATION MEANS DEPRESSION. 1946. 40 3/4x27 3/4 inches, 103 1/2x70 1/2 cm. L.I.P. & B.A., New York. Condition A- / B+: unobtrusive vertical and horizontal folds; minor restoration in image. This poster is based on a photograph Shahn took during the 1930s while traveling through Arkansas,"of a farmer, whose seeming integrity and strength greatly impressed Shahn" (Prescott p. 132). It is a troubling image of a working man faced with the Great Depression, yet with a bright, yellow solution: "Register - Vote." Prescott 156.
