Aug 01, 2001 - Sale 1903

Sale 1903 - Lot 79

Price Realized: $ 632
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
HE GUARDS THE ROAD TO FRANCE. 1919.

55 1/2x40 1/2 inches. Latham Litho & Printing Co., Brooklyn, New York.
Condition B+: vertical and horizontal folds; repaired tear through bottom margin.
A sailor in brown and gray is standing with a large shell against a dramatic backdrop of U.S. Navy ships on rolling blue waves; lettering in red. Reuterdahl did a lot of work for the U.S. Navy during World War One, most notably his widely distributed poster "All Together / Enlist in the Navy". This is one of his scarcest images.