WILLIAM DODGE STEVENS (1870-1942). TEAMWORK BUILDS
WILLIAM DODGE STEVENS (1870-1942) TEAMWORK BUILDS SHIPS. Circa 1918.36x49½ inches, 91½x125¾ cm. Forbes, Boston.Condition B / B+: extensive overpainting in top margin and upper side margins; small replaced losses in margins; repaired tears and restoration in margins and image; repaired pin holes in corners.Emphasizing "concentrated human energy" (Paret p. 80), this poster embodies American industrial power in its rawest form. Issued by the U.S. Shipping Board, the image is a precursor to the industrial photographs of the following decade, in which work by Lewis Hine and Margaret Bourke-White captured the same intensity and power within the factories of America. Rawls p. 76, Paret 114, Theofiles 256, Borkan p. 53.
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WILLIAM DODGE STEVENS (1870-1942) TEAMWORK BUILDS SHIPS. Circa 1918.36x49½ inches, 91½x125¾ cm. Forbes, Boston.Condition B / B+: extensive overpainting in top margin and upper side margins; small replaced losses in margins; repaired tears and restoration in margins and image; repaired pin holes in corners.Emphasizing "concentrated human energy" (Paret p. 80), this poster embodies American industrial power in its rawest form. Issued by the U.S. Shipping Board, the image is a precursor to the industrial photographs of the following decade, in which work by Lewis Hine and Margaret Bourke-White captured the same intensity and power within the factories of America. Rawls p. 76, Paret 114, Theofiles 256, Borkan p. 53.
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