Wake Up, America! 1917.
Artist: JAMES MONTGOMERY FLAGG (1870-1960)
Size: 28 1/8 x 41 3/4 in./71.5 x 106 cm
Condition: A-/ Unobtrusive folds.
Printer: The Hegeman Print, New York
Reference: Ref: Rawls, cover & frontispiece; Theofiles, 7; Flagg, p. 68; PAI-LXXVIII, 217
Key Words: Art Nouveau; World War I; American; Propaganda
Wake Up, America! 1917.
Columbia sleeps, clothed within the Stars and Stripes on a front-porch rocker in this alarm clock to the nation. One of the best and rarest of World War I posters, its slogan has been used as a title for innumerable books, including Rawls' famous "World War I and the American Poster"—and its message is seemingly inexhaustible and just as potent today as 103 years ago.
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Artist: JAMES MONTGOMERY FLAGG (1870-1960)
Size: 28 1/8 x 41 3/4 in./71.5 x 106 cm
Condition: A-/ Unobtrusive folds.
Printer: The Hegeman Print, New York
Reference: Ref: Rawls, cover & frontispiece; Theofiles, 7; Flagg, p. 68; PAI-LXXVIII, 217
Key Words: Art Nouveau; World War I; American; Propaganda
Wake Up, America! 1917.
Columbia sleeps, clothed within the Stars and Stripes on a front-porch rocker in this alarm clock to the nation. One of the best and rarest of World War I posters, its slogan has been used as a title for innumerable books, including Rawls' famous "World War I and the American Poster"—and its message is seemingly inexhaustible and just as potent today as 103 years ago.
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