Aug 04, 2010 - Sale 2220

Sale 2220 - Lot 59

Price Realized: $ 1,440
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
NORMAN ROCKWELL (1894-1978) LET'S GIVE HIM ENOUGH AND ON TIME. 1942.
28x40 inches, 71x101 1/2 cm. U.S. Government Printing Office.
Condition B+: creases in margins and image; minor staining in margins; vertical and horizontal folds.
"Designed for display in munitions factories, this striking image demonstrated the importance of their task to munitions workers far removed from the front's deadly dangers" (Meehan Military Posters cat. 17). Done in typical Rockwell realism (he even borrowed a machine gun from the army to get the exact details), this exhausted, battle-scarred and solo machine gunner is sitting in his torn fatigues on a yellow slope, out of ammunition and palpably desperate. A far cry from Rockwell's pleasant front porch and ice cream parlor scenes, but equally as moving. Posters for Victory p. 72, Judd C. 10.