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CLARENCE COLES PHILLIPS (1880-1927) LIGHT CONSUMES COAL. Circa 1918. 27 3/4x20 1/4 inches, 70 1/2x51 1/2 cm. Edwards & Deutsch Litho Co., Chicago. Condition B+: restored losses and minor restoration at edges. In what is perhaps the most "artistic" of the American World War I posters, Phillips unites the bold, direct elements of German object posters, by artists such as Lucien Bernhard, with the intricate swirls and patterns of American Art Nouveau in the style of William Bradley. Walton Rawls writes in Wake Up America that with the exception of Phillips, "in the work of the majority of American artists who contributed posters to the war effort, there is little evidence of direct inspiration from European precedents" (p. 20). Rawls p. 20, Modern American 28, Darracott p. 36.
