That arm - your country needs it - Original WWI Recruiting Poster
- 1918
- Vojtech Preissig
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23 1/2 x 33 1/2 inches ~ (58 x 83 cm)$2,450
- 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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Very rare WWI Wentworth Institute, poster No 2. of soldier pitching a baseball, a metaphor for a hand grenade.
On old linen with no excess border.
Vojtěch Preissig was born on July 31, 1873, in Světec. Twenty-four years later, he moved to Paris and worked for two years with the Czech Art Nouveau artist, Alphonse Mucha. He returned to Prague in 1903, where he founded the periodical Česká grafika ("Czech Graphics”) He moved to the United States in 1910 and worked as an art instructor, in 1912, he taught at Columbia University and the Art Students League of New York. By 1916 he moved to Boston and taught a course in graphic arts for the Wentworth Institute. He became the director of the School of Printing and Graphic Arts until 1926. During his time with the Wentworth Institute, he designed recruitment posters for the United States armed forces of World War I, which were principally aimed at Czech immigrants. Preissig remained in the United States until 1930.
