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BEN SHAHN WE FRENCH WORKERS WARN YOU. 1942. 281/2x40 inches. U. S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C. Condition B+: sharp vertical and horizontal folds. Paper. Workers in white and black jackets, with their arms upraised are being rounded up in front of a brick wall bearing a red, official decree from the Vichy government. This, the first of Shahn's war posters, was a message to American workers to keep up the fight and avoid the fate of their French counterparts. It was designed in accordance with Shahn's convictions concerning the nature of a war poster: "It must be neither tricky nor smart . . . the objective is too serious for smartness. It has to have dignity, grimness, urgency . . . It has to be unblinkingly serious." (Prescott p. 122). Prescott 143, Weill 504.
