Aug 04, 2004 - Sale 2011

Sale 2011 - Lot 428

Price Realized: $ 460
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
WOMEN ARMY CORPS.
28x20 inches. War Department, U. S. A.
Condition B+: vertical and horizontal folds; minor creases in margins. Paper.
A female soldier in uniform standing before the shadows of advancing soldiers and war planes. Schlaikjer studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris and proceeded to spend most of his artistic life working for the military. After the war he became the offical art consultant for the U.S. War Department.