Aug 01, 2007 - Sale 2120

Sale 2120 - Lot 142

Price Realized: $ 1,560
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
JONAS LIE ON THE JOB FOR VICTORY. Circa 1918.
39 1/4x55 inches. (99 x 140 cm.) W. F. Powers Co., New York.
Condition B/B+: expert, extensive overpainting in margins and image; repaired tears in image.
With the Emergency Fleet Corporation rushing to put as many ships into the water as possible at the outset of the war, this image, with its impressive display of technological might, must have struck pride in the hearts of American working men. Theofiles 270, Rawls p. 186-87.