EDWARD MCKNIGHT KAUFFER (1890-1954) YUGOSLAV PEOPLE LED BY TITO / FIGHTING VANGUARD OF DEMOCRATIC EUROPE. 1944.
25x19 inches, 63 1/4x48 1/4 cm.
Condition B+: repaired tears at edges, some into image; minor creases and repaired tears in margins and along vertical and horizontal folds.
Throughout the war, Kauffer aligned his talents with disparate causes, designing posters on behalf of a multitude of organizations. In 1944, for the United Committee of South-Slavic Americans, Kauffer depicts a heroic photomontage of Marshall Tito (Josef Broz) surrounded by arrows, providing a dramatic sense of movement, progress and change. A rare political image from World War II. Kauffer 288, Mechanical Age pl. 103.