America Calls / Enlist in the Navy. 1917.

Artist: JOSEPH C. LEYENDECKER (1874-1951)
Size: 28 1/4 x 40 7/8 in./71.8 x 103.7 cm
Condition: B/ Restored tears at top and bottom.
Printer: U.S. Navy Publicity Bureau, New York
Reference: Ref: Theofiles, 51; Rawls, p. 74; Cutler, p. 226 (var); PAI-LXII, 215
Key Words: Art Nouveau; World War I; American; Propaganda

America Calls / Enlist in the Navy. 1917.
Leyendecker was commissioned to design posters during both World War I and II. Here, a sailor and Liberty clasp hands, symbolically sealing their pact of safeguarding the world against the enemy, while she rests her arm reassuringly on his shoulder.