Travel? Adventure? answer - join the Marines Enlist To-Day WWI Recruiting Poster
- 1918
- James Montgomery Flagg (1877-1960)
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29 x 40 inches ~ (73 x 101 cm)$8,500
- Linen backed
Linen backing is the industry standard of conservation. Canvas is stretchered and a sheet of acid free barrier paper is laid down. The poster is then pasted to the acid free paper using an acid free paste. This process is fully reversible and gives support to the poster. A border of linen is left around the poster and can be used by a framer to mount the poster so that nothing touches the poster itself.
The price of this poster includes linen backing.
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During World War I, the U.S. military commissioned artists and illustrators like James Montgomery Flagg and Howard Chandler Christy to create posters with striking images and simple statements to galvanize young men to join the fight abroad.
The posters were so effective that after the armistice was signed, with 'a peace army greatly needed, the Marines . . . again sought the poster's aide in making this force possible' (The Poster, November 1919, p. 23). However, a new angle was needed to recruit during peacetime. As explained by the Marine Recruiting Publicity Bureau, 'It was necessary now to present the military career as something worthwhile to the young man seeking an occupation . . . men now enlist in a more thoughtful mood . . . we have to show them that we can offer them an interesting and profitable career' (p. 27).
Flagg's design of a jaunty marine on the back of a leopard was not only perfectly suited to catch the eye of a passer-by, but also wonderfully imparted the concept that "the Marines have landed and have the situation well in hand’
Possibly the rarest of Flagg’s posters.
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