?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
JAMES MONTGOMERY FLAGG (1870-1960)
I WANT YOU FOR U.S. ARMY. 1917.
40x30 inches, 101½x76¼ cm. Leslie-Judge Co., New York. Condition B+: skinning in corners; minor repaired tears at edges; creases, abrasions, foxing and minor tears in margins and image. Affixed around margins to foam board.
"The best known American poster of all time" (Darracott xviii) and clearly "a cultural icon" of 20th century imagery and propaganda (Power of the Poster p. 162).
Flagg p. 80 and cover, American Style 60, IWM I p. 27, Rawls p. 13, Theofiles 11, Darracott 13, Rickards 14, Borkan p. 13, Word & Image p. 48, Modern American 24, Power of The Poster 156, War Posters 18.
