Aug 04, 2004 - Sale 2011

Sale 2011 - Lot 288

Unsold
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
WARNING! INFLATION MEANS DEPRESSION. 1946.
48x273/4 inches. L.I.P. & B.A., New York.
Condition A-: vertical and horizontal folds.
A working man is pondering his uncertain future, filled with the unpleasant prospect of inflation and depression. To prevent this, the poster offers the solution with bright, yellow lettering, "Register - Vote." Based on a photograph Shahn took during the 1930s while traveling through Arkansas "of a farmer, whose seeming integrity and strength greatly impressed Shahn" (Prescott p. 132). Prescott 156.