Aug 05, 2021 - Sale 2577

Sale 2577 - Lot 37

Price Realized: $ 594
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200

CHARLES DANA GIBSON (1867-1944)

HELP! THE WOMAN'S LAND ARMY OF AMERICA / NEW JERSEY DIVISION. 1918.


41x26 3/4 inches, 104x68 cm. Greenwich Litho. Co., New York.
Condition A-: minor repaired tears at edges; minor creases in margins and image.

America's World War I poster output was spearheaded by the Department of Pictorial Publicity. Formed in 1917, shortly after America entered the war, the group was composed of members of the Society of Illustrators and was led by Charles Dana Gibson, the man who created the eponymous, ubiquitous American sweetheart, the Gibson Girl. The division, which was composed of America's most prominent illustrators, artists and cartoonists, donated their services to the war effort. Gibson himself designed only a handful of posters; this one was taken from an illustration he created for Life magazine. Not in Rawls.