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CHARLES DANA GIBSON U.S. NAVY - "HERE HE IS SIR." Circa 1917. 39x253/4 inches. Condition B+: repaired tears and creases in margins. 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 lead 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, and by the end of the war they had "submitted seven hundred poster designs to fifty-eight separate government departments and patriotic committees" (Rawls p. 167). Gibson himself designed only a handful of posters, and this one was taken from a cartoon he created for Life magazine. Rawls 151, Borkan p. 22, Theofiles 36, Navy 4.
