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JES SCHLAIKJER (1897-1982) O'ER THE RAMPARTS WE WATCH / UNITED STATES ARMY AIR FORCES. 1944. 24 3/4x19 inches, 63x48 1/4 cm. Brown & Bigelow, St. Paul. Condition A: minor creases and restoration along vertical and horizontal folds. 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 is holding 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.
