DAVID LEVINE Raising the Peace Sign on Iwo Jima. Single panel cartoon, 1971. Print with signature. 279x349 mm; 11x13 3/4 inches. Signed in pencil, "David Levine" in lower right image.
Parody of the iconic photograph by Joe Rosenthal of six United States Marines raising the U.S. flag atop Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima in the final stages of the Pacific War, 1945. Levine's version replaces soldiers with hippies and the flag with a peace sign.
