EDWARD MCKIGHT KAUFFER (1870-1954) EL NUEVO ORDEN. 1942. 40 1/4x28 1/2 inches. El Coordinador de Asuntos Interamericanos, Washington. Condition B+: repaired tears and creases in margins and image; vertical and horizontal folds. An astonishing image that is absolutely unexpected within the scope of Kauffer's work. In an attempt to vilify Germans during the Second World War, he has incarnated an Axis officer in the image of a horrifying, slobbering, wild beast. Created for the Asuntos Interamericanas, an organization which generated propaganda for dissemination in Latin America, Kauffer's vision of the "New Order of the Axis" is on a par with Karl Koehler's This is the Enemy (see Swann Poster Auction #2011, lot 398) as one of the most effective anti-enemy images ever penned in the United States. Modern America 54.
