Aug 05, 2009 - Sale 2185

Sale 2185 - Lot 74

Unsold
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
JONAS LIE (1880-1940) ON THE JOB FOR VICTORY.
39 1/4x55 inches, 100x140 cm. W. F. Powers Co., New York.
Condition B+: restoration and overpainting in bottom left corner; repaired tears and restoraion in margins and image.
With the Emergency Fleet Coorporation rushing to put as many ships into the water as possible at the outset of the war, this image, with its impressive display of technology might must have struck pride in the hearts of American workingmen. This is the larger of two formats. Rawls pgs. 186-187, Theofiles 270, Borkan p. 57, Paret fig. 115, p. 80.