Aug 05, 2021 - Sale 2577

Sale 2577 - Lot 35

Price Realized: $ 1,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500

HOWARD CHANDLER CHRISTY (1873-1952)

IF YOU WANT TO FIGHT! / JOIN THE MARINES. 1915.


40x29 1/2 inches, 101 1/2x75 cm.
Condition A-: minor creases in margins and image. Framed.

An early taunting and daring recruitment poster done two years before the United States entered World War I. Christy played upon "the confusion of genders [that] provided posters with provocative images like this . . . whose purpose is the seduction of men into service" (Paret p. 64). Rawls p. 249, Paret 89, Theofiles 66, Borkan p. 39, American Style 64.