Aug 01, 2007 - Sale 2120

Sale 2120 - Lot 124

Price Realized: $ 2,040
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,000
HOWARD CHANDLER CHRISTY IF YOU WANT TO FIGHT! JOIN THE MARINES. 1915.
36 1/4x27 inches. (91 x 69 cm.)
Condition B+: wrinkles and creases in image. Paper. Framed.
An early sexy, taunting, challenging, and daring recruitment poster done two years before the United States entered the war, 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.