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JES SCHLAIKJER (1897-1982)
O'ER THE RAMPARTS WE WATCH / UNITED STATES ARMY AIR FORCES. 1944.
24 1/4x18 1/2 inches, 61 1/2x47 cm. Brown & Bigelow, St. Paul. Condition B+ / B: skinning in top left corner; vertical and horizontal folds; adhesive stains on verso; minor losses at edges; creases in corners. Paper.
With the kind of realistic detail most often seen in the Homefront scenes by Norman Rockwell, Schlaikjer depicts a young pilot in his leather flying jacket, rising from pastel-hued clouds above a squadron of B-29 Superfortresses, B-17 Flying Fortresses, and B-26 Marauders. More romantic than war-like, he holds a bomb while looking off towards a distant, more promising future. It is patriotic in both its use of a line from the American National Anthem and proud, powerful American imagery. Zeman frontis, Pollack p. 21.
