Avenge December 7

This Second World War American poster, which depicts a sailor with a clenched fist and warships among explosions, refers to the surpirse attack by Japanese aircraft on Pearl Harbour on the morning of 7 December 1941. One of the warships depicted is the USS 'Arizona' which was lost at its moorings resulting in a high loss of life. Bernard Perlin (1918-2014) was an American painter. He is primarily known for creating pro-war art during the Second World War and magic realism paintings of urban American life. Perlin was born in Richmond, Virginia his parents were Jewish immigrants from Russia. At the encouragement of a high school teacher, he enrolled in the New York School of Design, studying there from 1934 to 1936 and then the Arts Student League until 1940. In 1938 he was awarded the Kosciusko Foundation Award to study in Poland. Perlin entered the Graphics Department of the Office of War Information in 1942, creating pro-war propaganda popular in the United States. He continued his focus on war as an artist-correspondent for Life Magazine from 1943–1944 and then again for Fortune Magazine in 1945.