"Ammunition." and remember bonds buy bullets.

Place North & Central America: United States of America
Accession Number ARTV00838
Collection type Art
Measurement sheet: 75.8 x 51 cm
Object type Poster
Physical description chromolithograph on paper
Maker Lynch, Vincent
Division of Pictorial Publicity
Ketterlinus
Place made United States of America: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia County, Philadelphia
Date made 1918
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

United States First World War poster promoting the sale of War Bonds. It features an image of a soldier with a rifle, machine gun and empty ammunition boxes, at the front, reaching out toward the viewer with his right hand as if asking for more bullets. The image set, against a yellow background, takes up the majority and is framed with text overlay ed across the top and bottom. This poster was most likely part of the Fourth Liberty Loan campaign which ran from 28 September - 19 October 1918. Vincent Lynch (1862-1935) was a commercial illustrator whose work appeared in 'American Magazine', 'Scientific American', 'Everybody’s Magazine', as well as other periodicals. Much of his work features cars, aircraft, and other vehicles. He exhibited with the Society of Washington Artists and the Washington Water Color Club in 1909. He would later illustrate posters in support of the First World War.

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