HOWARD CHANDLER CHRISTY (1873-1952) IF YOU WANT TO FIGHT! / JOIN THE MARINES. 1915. 39 7/8x29 7/8 inches, 101x76 cm. Condition B+: repaired tears, creases and overpainting in margins and image. An early sexy, taunting, challenging, and daring recruitment poster done two years before the United States entered World War I, which 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.
